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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. 1837 Excerpt:...into the deep abyss. " The earth is made to reel, and rumbling by, Bellowing it rolls, the thunder's gathering wrath!--And the fierce (ires glare livid; and along The rocks the eddies of the sands whirl high, Borne by the hurricane, and all the blasts Of all the winds leap forth--each hurtling each-Mat in the wilderness of a ghastly war, The dark floods blended with the swooping heaven. It comes--it comes I--on me it speeds--the Storm, The rushing onslaught ojf the Thunder-god; O, Majesty of earth--my solemn mother! And thou that through the universal void, Circlesl sweet light, all blessing:--Eabth And Ether, ¥k, I invoke, to know the wrongs I suffer." IX. Such is the conclusion of this unequalled drama, epitomized somewhat at undue length, in order to show the reader how much the philosophy that had awakened in the age of Solon now actuated the creations of poetry. Not that iEschylus, like Euripides, deals in didactic sentences and oracular aphorisms. He rightly held such pedantries of the closet, foreign to the tragic genius.f2) His philosophy is in the spirit, and not the diction of his works--in vast conceptions, not laconic maxims. He does not preach, but he inspires. The " Prometheus" is perhaps the greatest moral poem in the world--sternly and loftily intellectual--and, amidst its darker (i It is greatly disputed whether lo was represented on the stage as transformed into the actual shape of a heifer, or merely accursed with a visionary frenzy, in which she believes in the transformation. It is with great reluctance that I own it seems to me not possible to explain away certain expressions without supposing that lo appeared on the stage at least partially transformed. (2) Yit. Xsch. I and less palpable allegories, presenting...