English poetry -- 19th century; Landscapes -- England -- Dorset -- Poetry
The aguish fear that shakes th’ afflicted breast
With sore anxiety of what shall be—
And all for nought.—P. 14, v. 179.
ματαιος εκ γυκτων φοβας
Κινει, ταρασσει, και διωκεται πολεως
Χαλχηκλατῳ πλαστιγγι λυμανθεν δεμας. Choeph. 286.
To shun that harbourless and hollow coast.—P. 16, v. 204.
μολοντες αλιμενον χθονα
Ες νυκτ’ αποστειχοντος ἡλιου, φιλει
Ωδινα τικτειν νυξ χυβερνητῃ σοφῳ. Supplices, 775.
——the promontory
Where still St. Alban’s high-built chapel stands.—P. 16. v. 205.
Την αιπυνωτον αμφι Δωδωνην, ινα
Μαντεια θωκος τ’ εστι Θεσπρωτου Διος. Prom. Vinct. 829.
Was lost, by Neptune’s wild and foamy jaws
Swallow’d up quick.—P. 17, v. 211.
ενθεν εκραγησονταιν ποτε
Ποταμοι πυρος δαπτοντες αγριαις γναθοις. Prom. Vinct. 367.
Alas! they perish’d all: all in one hour!—P. 17, v. 220.
In the Persæ the Chorus demand of Xerxes what was become of his friends
the Nobles; he answers, “I left them wrecked on the shores of Salamis:”
they ask farther, “Where is Pharnuchus and Ariomardus? Where is the royal
Sebalces?” &c. Xerxes replies,
Ιω, ιω, μοι μοι
παντες
Ενι πιτυλῳ,
(Ε, ε, ε,) τλαμονες
Ασπαιρουσι χερσῳ. 978.
——flank’d with citadels and towers,
And rocky walls, and arches massy-proof
Against the storm of war.—P. 23, v. 292.
Συ δ’ ωστε νηος κεδνος διακοστροφος
Φραξαι πολισμα, πριν καταιγισαι πνοας
Αρεος. Sept. cont. Theb. 62.
With horned violence to push and whelm
This pile.—P. 24, v. 319.
ἁι δε, κερωτυπουμεναι βιᾳ
Χειμωνοτυφῳ, συν ζαλῃ τ’ ομβροκτυπῳ. Agam. 664.
Χειμωνοτυφῳ; so I read the passage, instead of Χειμωνι, τυφω, κτλ.
In the Supplices of this author there is a similar phrase on a similar
subject,
Πεμψατε ποντονδ’, ενθα δε λαιλαπι
Χειμωνοτυπῳ, βροντη στεροπη
Τ’, ομβροφοροισι τ’ ανεμοις αγριας
Αλος αντησαντες ολοιντο. 34.
In the Clouds of Aristophanes, A. 1. S. 4, this word occurs,
ἑκατογκεφαλατυφω, and the Scholiast says, in τυφων or τυφως the first
syllable is long.
To generous Virtue, and the holy love
Of liberty, a dedicated spirit.—P. 33, v. 433.
In the Eumenides the Fury calls Orestes
δαιμοναν σκια
Εμοι τραφεις τε και καθιερωμενος. 303.
So fares it with the things of earth
Which seem most constant: there will come the cloud
That shall enfold them up.—P. 35, v. 466.
Ιω βροτεια πραγματ’· ευτυχουντα μεν
Σκια τις αντρεψειεν. Agam. 1336.
The multitudinous strokes incessantly
Bruise all, &c.—P. 36, v. 478.
There is a singular similarity in the length of the words here, and in
the following passage of the Choephori, where Electra speaks of the
murder of her father; intending, perhaps, to express the multitude of
wounds by the polysyllabic term;
πολυπλαγκτα δ’ ην ιδειν
Επασσυτεροτριβη τα χερος ορεγματα. 423.
POEMS.
INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.
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