Dramatic and Early Poems
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ISBN13: 9781154686609
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...-trt?ou- That is, the secret of this miracle. CALLICLES. Bah Thou a doctor? Thou art superstitious. Simple Pausanias, 'twas no miracle. Panthea, for I know her kinsmen well, Was subject to these trances from a girl. Empedocles would say so, did he deign: But he still lets the people, whom he scorns, Gape and cry wizard at him, if they list. But thou, thou art no company for him, 140 Thou art as cross, as sour'd as himself. Thou hast some wrong from thine own citizens, And then thy friend is banished, and on that Straightway thou fallest to arraign the times, As if the sky was impious not to fall. The Sophists are no enemies of his; I hear, Gorgias, their chief, speaks nobly of him, As of his gifted master and once friend. He is too scornful, too high-wrought, too bitter. 'Tis not the times, 'tis not the Sophists vex him: There is some root of suffering in himself, 151 Some secret and unfollow'd vein of woe, C Which makes the times look black and sad to him. Pester him not in this his sombre mood With questionings about an idle tale, But lead him through the lovely mountain paths, And keep his mind from preying on itself, And talk to him of things at hand, and common, Not miracles: thou art a learned man, But credulous of fables as a girl. 160 In the PAUSANIAS highest gien And thou, a boy whose tongue outruns his know-ledge, And on whose lightness blame is thrown away. Enough of this: I see the litter wind Up by the torrent side, under the pines. I must rejoin Empedocles. Do thou Crouch in the brush-wood till the mules have passed, Then play thy kind part well. Farewell till night. Scene Second Noon. A Glen on the highest skirts of the woody regions of Etna. EMPEDOCLES. PAUSANIAS PAUSANIAS The noon is hot: when we have crossed the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154686609 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154686604 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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