FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41  
42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>  
et Callirrhoe; Helena ad Pudoris Aram. 19, 20. Imaginary Conversations: Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble; AEschines and Phocion; Kosciusko and Poniatowski; Milton and Marvell; Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey; Tiberius and Vipsania. 21, 22, 23. Hellenics: To Corinth. 24. Hellenics: Regeneration. 25. The Hamadryad; Acon and Rhodope. 26. The Shades of Agamemnon and Iphigeneia. 27. Enallos and Cymodameia. 28. The Children of Venus. 29. Cupid and Pan. 30. The Death of Clytemnestra; The Madness of Orestes; The Prayer of Orestes. 32. The Last of Ulysses. 33. Imaginary Conversations. Lady Lisle and Elizabeth Gaunt. 35. _Pro monumento super milites regio jussu interemptos._ 36. The Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare. 37. Pericles and Aspasia. 38. The Pentameron. 39. Imaginary Conversations: Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. 40. Marcellus and Hannibal: P. Scipio AEmilianus, Polybius, and Panaetius. 41. Alexander and Priest of Ammon: Bonaparte and the President of the Senate. 42. The Empress Catherine and Princess Dashkoff. 43. Vittoria Colonna and Michel-Angelo Buonarroti. 44. Andrea of Hungary, Giovanna of Naples, Fra Rupert; a Trilogy: Five Scenes (Beatrice Cenci). 45. Luther's Parents: The Death of Hofer: (_Imaginary Conversations_) Andrew Hofer, Count Metternich, and the Emperor Francis; Judge Wolfgang and Henry of Melchthal: The Coronation. Tyrannicide (_The Last Fruit off an Old Tree_): Walter Tyrrel and William Rufus: Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn. 46. Essex and Spenser (_Imaginary Conversations_): Essex and Bacon: Antony and Octavius (_Scenes for the Study_). 47. Critical Essays on Theocritus and Catullus. 48, 49. Heroic Idyls; Homer, Laertes, and Agatha. 'J'en passe, et des meilleurs.' But who can enumerate all or half our obligations to the illimitable and inexhaustible genius of the great man whose life and whose labour lasted even from the generation of our fathers' fathers to our own? Hardly any reader can feel, I think, so deeply as I feel the inadequacy of my poor praise and too imperfect gratitude to the majestic subject of their attempted expression; but 'such as I had have I given him.' GRAND CHORUS OF BIRDS FROM ARISTOPHANES _Attempted in English verse after the original metre._ I was allured into the audacity of this experiment by consideration of a fact which hitherto does not
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41  
42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>  



Top keywords:
Imaginary
 

Conversations

 

Orestes

 
Hellenics
 

fathers

 

William

 
Scenes
 

Walter

 

Agatha

 
Laertes

Heroic

 

obligations

 

illimitable

 
enumerate
 
meilleurs
 

Critical

 

Tyrrel

 

Francis

 
Wolfgang
 

Melchthal


Tyrannicide

 

Coronation

 

Boleyn

 

inexhaustible

 

Essays

 

Catullus

 

Theocritus

 

Spenser

 

Antony

 

Octavius


generation

 

Attempted

 
ARISTOPHANES
 

English

 

CHORUS

 
original
 

consideration

 

hitherto

 

experiment

 

allured


audacity

 

Emperor

 
Hardly
 

reader

 

labour

 
lasted
 

deeply

 
subject
 
majestic
 
attempted