The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 1 A Grateful People On the 20th of August, 1672, the ...
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at the same time crushing instrument, -- "moreover, will there not, from the Buytenhof to the gate ...
The spear is in the heart: with blood imbrued Young mothers wail aloud, For children at their brea...
redoubled clamour and horrible threats, to which the Count opposed the most perfect urbanity. "Gen...
ATTENDANT O woe, O woe, my lord is done to death! Woe, woe, and woe again, Aegisthus gone! Hasten...
ATOSSA Unhappy fortune, what a tide of ills Bursts o'er me! Chief this foul disgrace, which shows ...
Look, how the spurted stain combines with time To blur the many dyes that once adorned Its pattern...
And conquest on her banners waits no more. XERXES At such a fall, such troops of heroes lost, How...
470 BC THE PERSIANS by Aeschylus translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ATOSSA, wid...
460 BC THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Morshead CHARACTERS IN THE PLA...
Speak, royal lady, what thy will, assured We want no second bidding, where our power In word or de...
And helpful to our army thus beset, That ye before the statues of our gods Should fling yourselves...
Unhappy in his fate. Syennesis, Cilicia's warlike chief, who dared to front The foremost dangers, ...
Unbound the middle current, down they sunk Each over other; happiest he who found The speediest de...
Whereby Zeus shall persuade me to unlock My lips until these shackles be cast loose. Therefore let...