Aeschylusin a sentence
- That was the year I came to class at the start of the new semester and found only one student to sign up for Drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill.† (source)
- The novel is Faulkner's version of Aeschylus's Oresteia (458 B.c.), the tragedy of the returning soldiers from Troy and revenge and destruction on a mythic scale.† (source)
- This is where the great tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were performed during the time of Socrates.† (source)
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon† (source)
- Aeschylus' epitaph noted his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon.
- But call forth thundering Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles to us.† (source)
- In fact, Aeschylus he found sublime—and dull: he could not understand his great reputation.† (source)
- He saw the grandeur of the Prometheus fable—but the fable moved him more than the play of Aeschylus.† (source)
- Why should AEschylus have sung two thousand years before Shakespeare was born?† (source)
- The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based on this legend.† (source)
- 'tis an anapaest of AEschylus which expresses grief perfectly.† (source)
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- Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses on Isaac, AEschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius.† (source)
- After AEschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton.† (source)
- Meanwhile I will read, as soon as I am settled in Christminster, the books I have not been able to get hold of here: Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes—† (source)
- Amory, lately I reread Aeschylus and there in the divine irony of the "Agamemnon" I find the only answer to this bitter age—all the world tumbled about our ears, and the closest parallel ages back in that hopeless resignation.† (source)
- Aeschylus (translated) the same.† (source)
- What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel.† (source)
- The student may read Homer or AEschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.† (source)
- On the table, at Mr. Irwine's elbow, lay the first volume of the Foulis AEschylus, which Arthur knew well by sight; and the silver coffee-pot, which Carroll was bringing in, sent forth a fragrant steam which completed the delights of a bachelor breakfast.† (source)
- There was nothing down to poor poetry,—properly speaking, that which persisted in vegetating in manuscripts,—which was not forced, in order to make something of itself, to come and frame itself in the edifice in the shape of a hymn or of prose; the same part, after all, which the tragedies of AEschylus had played in the sacerdotal festivals of Greece; Genesis, in the temple of Solomon.† (source)
- Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor AEschylus, nor Virgil even—works as refined, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morning itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and finish and the lifelong and heroic literary labors of the ancients.† (source)
- "Ah, my boy, it is not only woman's love that is [two greek words omitted] as old AEschylus calls it.† (source)
- He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, Juvenal, AEschylus, and Isaiah.† (source)
- Bewigged tragedy has a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of AEschylus, contest its right to existence.† (source)
- It reaches the grandeur of AEschylus!† (source)
- This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after Corneille, like Euripides after AEschylus.† (source)
- That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Aeschylus, Dante, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may consist.† (source)
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