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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present
Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. T
- 538 _Arn._ Would that I had been so, And never seen the light!_Bert._ I would so, too!But as thou _hast_--hence, hence--and do thy best!That back of thine may bear its burthen; 'tis More high, if not so broad as that of others._Arn._ It _bears_ its burth
- 537 A DRAMA.INTRODUCTION TO _THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED_.The date of the original MS. of _The Deformed Transformed_ is "Pisa, 1822." There is nothing to show in what month it was written, but it may be conjectured that it was begun and finished within
- 536 _Carl_. Nay--that's hopeless. 140 They must not only mend but draw it too.The mules are drowned--a murrain on them both!One kicked me as I would have helped him on._Stralenheim_. It is most irksome to me--this delay.I was for Prague on business of gr
- 535 _Josepha_. You shall have it, 10 Such as this ruinous mansion may afford: Tis s.p.a.cious, but too cold and crazy now For Hospitality's more cordial welcome: But as it is 'tis yours._Werner_ (_to his wife_). Why say ye so?At once such hearty gre
- 534 ACT I.SCENE I.--_A ruinous chateau on the Silesian frontier of Bohemia_._Josepha_. THE storm is at it's height--how the wind howls, Like an unearthly voice, through these lone chambers!And the rain patters on the flapping cas.e.m.e.nt Which quivers i
- 533 Lennart Torstenson, Swedish general, born 1603, fought at the battle of Leipzig, and was taken prisoner at Nurnburg. In 1641 he was appointed General-in-Chief of the Swedes in Germany, and died at Stockholm, April, 1651.Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, born
- 532 _Jos._ What is't we hear? My Siegendorf!Thank Heaven, I see you safe!_Sieg._ Safe!_Ida._ Yes, dear father!_Sieg._ No, no; I have no children: never more Call me by that worst name of parent._Jos._ What Means my good Lord?_Sieg._ That you have given b
- 531 He, you, and I stood o'er a gulf wherein I have plunged our enemy. _You_ kindled first The torch--_you_ showed the path; now trace me that Of safety--or let me!_Sieg._ I have done with life!_Ulr._ Let us have done with that which cankers life-- Famil
- 530 _Sieg._ You merciful?-- You! Base calumniator!_Gab._ I. 'Twill rest With me at last to be so. You concealed me-- In secret pa.s.sages known to yourself, You said, and to none else. At dead of night, Weary with watching in the dark, and dubious Of tra
- 529 _Sieg._ Name him._Gab._ He May have more names than one. Your Lords.h.i.+p had so Once on a time._Sieg._ If you mean me, I dare Your utmost._Gab._ You may do so, and in safety; I know the a.s.sa.s.sin._Sieg._ Where is he?_Gab._ (_pointing to_ ULRIC). Besi
- 528 _Ulr._ You dream._Sieg._ I live! and as I live, I saw him-- Heard him! he dared to utter even my name._Ulr._ What name?_Sieg._ Werner! _'twas_ mine._Ulr._ It must be so No more: forget it._Sieg._ Never! never! all My destinies were woven in that name
- 527 ACT V.SCENE I.--_A large and magnificent Gothic Hall in the Castle of Siegendorf, decorated with Trophies, Banners, and Arms of that Family_._Enter_ ARNHEIM _and_ MEISTER, _attendants of_ COUNT SIEGENDORF._Arn._ Be quick! the Count will soon return: the l
- 526 _Sieg._ (_solus_). Too much!-- Too much of duty, and too little love!He pays me in the coin he owes me not: For such hath been my wayward fate, I could not Fulfil a parent's duties by his side Till now; but love he owes me, for my thoughts Ne'er
- 525 _Sieg._ (_starts_). Ah!-- Where? on _what_ frontier?_Rod._ The Silesian, on My way--(_Aside to_ ULRIC.)--_Where_ shall I say?_Ulr._ (_aside to_ RODOLPH). To Hamburgh.(_Aside to himself_). That Word will, I think, put a firm padlock on His further inquisit
- 524 _Ulr._ _Where?_ _Ida._ In sleep--I see him lie Pale, bleeding, and a man with a raised knife Beside him._Ulr._ But you do not see his _face?_ _Ida_ (_looking at him_). No! Oh, my G.o.d! do _you?_ _Ulr._ Why do you ask?_Ida._ Because you look as if you saw
- 523 _Ulr._ I think so; for I love Nought else.--But I have not the time to pause Upon these gewgaws of the heart. Great things We have to do ere long. Speed! speed! good Rodolph!_Rod._ On my return, however, I shall find The Baroness Ida lost in Countess Sieg
- 522 _Eric_. That's not a faithful va.s.sal's likeness._Hen._ But Perhaps a true one._Eric_. Pity, as I said, The wars are over: in the hall, who like Count Ulric for a well-supported pride, Which awes, but yet offends not? in the field, Who like him
- 521 I'll face it. Who shall dare suspect me?_Ulr._ Yet You had _no_ guests--_no_ visitors--no life Breathing around you, save my mother's?_Wer._ Ah!The Hungarian?_Ulr._ He is gone! he disappeared Ere sunset._Wer._ No; I hid him in that very Conceale
- 520 Shalt thou be mine? I am, methinks, already A little king, a lucky alchymist!-- 340 A wise magician, who has bound the devil Without the forfeit of his soul. But come, Werner, or what else?_Wer._ Call me Werner still; You may yet know me by a loftier t.i.
- 519 _Wer._ I see it, and I feel it; yet I feel Further--that you despise me._Ulr._ Wherefore should I?_Wer._ Must I repeat my humiliation?_Ulr._ No!I have fathomed it and you. But let us talk Of this no more. Or, if it must be ever, 240 Not _now_. Your error
- 518 _Wer._ You see he is not here._Iden._ And yet we traced him 130 Up to this hall. Are you accomplices?Or deal you in the black art?_Wer._ I deal plainly, To many men the blackest._Iden._ It may be I have a question or two for yourself Hereafter; but we mus
- 517 _Wer._ It is a d.a.m.ned world, sir._Gab._ So is the nearest of the two next, as The priests say (and no doubt they should know best), Therefore I'll stick by this--as being both To suffer martyrdom, at least with such An epitaph as larceny upon my t
- 516 _Stral._ He stands Between me and a brave inheritance! 370 Oh! could you see it! But you shall._Ulr._ I hope so._Stral._ It is the richest of the rich Bohemia, Unscathed by scorching war. It lies so near The strongest city, Prague, that fire and sword Hav
- 515 _Ulr._ I merely asked a simple question._Gab._ If the judge asked me, I would answer "No"-- To you I answer _thus_. [_He draws_._Ulr._ (_drawing_). With all my heart!_Jos._ Without there! Ho! help! help!--Oh, G.o.d!here's murder! [_Exit_ JO
- 514 _Gab._ Then next time let him go sink Ere I go hang for s.n.a.t.c.hing him from drowning.But here he comes!_Enter_ STRALENHEIM._Gab._ (_goes up to him_). My n.o.ble Lord, I'm here! 200 _Stral._ Well, sir!_Gab._ Have you aught with me?_Stral._ What sh
- 513 _Ulr._ I named a villain. What is there in common With such a being and my father?_Wer._ Every thing!That ruffian is thy father![177]_Jos._ Oh, my son!Believe him not--and yet!--(_her voice falters_.) _Ulr._ (_starts, looks earnestly at_ WERNER _and then
- 512 Thou art indeed a melancholy jest! [_Exit_ GABOR.SCENE II.--_The Apartment of_ WERNER, _in the Palace_._Enter_ JOSEPHINE _and_ ULRIC._Jos._ Stand back, and let me look on thee again!My Ulric!--my beloved!--can it be-- After twelve years?_Ulr._ My dearest
- 511 _Iden._ Humph!--not exactly._Stral._ Or, at least, suspected?_Iden._ Oh! for that matter, very much suspected._Stral._ Who may he be?_Iden._ Why, don't _you_ know, my Lord? 200 _Stral._ How should I? I was fast asleep._Iden._ And so Was I--and that&#
- 510 _Fritz_. How? _We_, sir!_Iden._ No--not _you_, But some of the inferior knaves. You say The Baron was asleep in the great chair-- The velvet chair--in his embroidered night-gown; His toilet spread before him, and upon it A cabinet with letters, papers, an
- 509 _Jos._ (_coming forward_).I fain would shun these scenes, too oft repeated, Of feudal tyranny o'er petty victims; I cannot aid, and will not witness such.Even here, in this remote, unnamed, dull spot, 700 The dimmest in the district's map, exist
- 508 _Enter_ IDENSTEIN _and_ FRITZ _in conversation_._Fritz_. Immediately._Iden._ I tell you, 'tis impossible._Fritz_. It must Be tried, however; and if one express 590 Fail, you must send on others, till the answer Arrives from Frankfort, from the comman
- 507 _Stral._ I apprehend This is one of the strangers to whose aid[cp]I owe my rescue. Is not that the other?[_Pointing to_ WERNER.My state when I was succoured must excuse 470 My uncertainty to whom I owe so much._Iden._ He!--no, my Lord! he rather wants for
- 506 _Gab._ You look one still. All soldiers are Or should be comrades, even though enemies.Our swords when drawn must cross, our engines aim (While levelled) at each other's hearts; but when A truce, a peace, or what you will, remits 350 The steel into i
- 505 _Gab._ If I intrude, I crave---- _Iden._ Oh, no intrusion! 250 This is the palace; this a stranger like Yourself; I pray you make yourself at home: But where's his Excellency? and how fares he?_Gab._ Wetly and wearily, but out of peril: He paused to
- 504 _Wer._ An exile's daughter with an outcast son, Were a fit marriage: but I still had hopes To lift thee to the state we both were born for.Your father's house was n.o.ble, though decayed; And worthy by its birth to match with ours._Jos._ Your fa
- 503 WERNER _and_ JOSEPHINE, _his Wife_._Jos._ My love, be calmer!_Wer._ I am calm._Jos._ To me-- Yes, but not to thyself: thy pace is hurried, And no one walks a chamber like to ours, With steps like thine, when his heart is at rest.Were it a garden, I should
- 502 "The new Sesostris, whose unharnessed kings."_Werner_, act iii. sc. 3, lines 10, 11-- "... while the knoll Of long-lived parents."_Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xcvi. lines 5, 6-- "... is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless.&
- 501 _Werner; or, The Inheritance_, was begun at Pisa, December 18, 1821, and finished January 20, 1822. At the end of the month, January 29, Byron despatched the MS., not to Murray, but to Moore, then in retreat at Paris, intending, no doubt, that it should b
- 500 [143] [_Vide post_, p. 294.][144] {294}[Byron's knowledge of Mount Ararat was probably derived from the following pa.s.sage in Tournefort: "It is a most frightful sight; David might well say such sort of places show the grandeur of the Lord.One
- 499 _Aza._ It cannot slay us: threaten dust with death, And talk of weapons unto that which bleeds.What are thy swords in our immortal eyes? 790 _Raph._ The moment cometh to approve thy strength; And learn at length How vain to war with what thy G.o.d command
- 498 Even had their days been left to toil their path Through time to dust, unshortened by G.o.d's wrath, Still they are Evil's prey, and Sorrow's spoil._Aho._ Let them fly! 610 I hear the voice which says that all must die, Sooner than our whit
- 497 _j.a.ph._ My sire and race but glory in their G.o.d, Anah! and thou?---- _Anah_. Whate'er our G.o.d decrees, The G.o.d of Seth as Cain, I must obey, And will endeavour patiently to obey.But could I dare to pray in his dread hour 430 Of universal veng
- 496 And loudly lift each superhuman voice-- All die, 250 Save the slight remnant of Seth's seed-- The seed of Seth, Exempt for future sorrow's sake from death.But of the sons of Cain None shall remain; And all his goodly daughters Must lie beneath t
- 495 _Shem_. To the tents of the father of the sisters?_Noah_. No; to the cavern of the Caucasus.[_Exeunt_ NOAH _and_ SHEM.SCENE III.--_The mountains.--A cavern,[144] and the rocks of Caucasus_._j.a.ph._ (_solus_). Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave, W
- 494 _Anah_. My Azaziel![_Exeunt_.SCENE II.--_Enter_ IRAD _and_ j.a.pHET._Irad_. Despond not: wherefore wilt thou wander thus To add thy silence to the silent night, And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars?They cannot aid thee._j.a.ph._ But they soothe me--now
- 493 NOAH AND HIS SONS.IRAD.j.a.pHET.WOMEN.ANAH.AHOLIBAMAH._Chorus of Spirits of the Earth.--Chorus of Mortals_.HEAVEN AND EARTH.PART I.SCENE I.--_A woody and mountainous district near Mount Ararat.--Time, midnight_._Enter_ ANAH _and_ AHOLIBAMAH.[138]_Anah_. O
- 492 [130] {264}[Compare the following pa.s.sage from _La Rapresentatione di Abel et di Caino_ (in Firenze l'anno MDLIV.)-- "Abel parla a dio fatto il sacrifitio, Rendendogli laude.Signor per cui di tanti bene abondo Liquali tu sommamente mi concedi
- 491 ii. 2).][cd] _An hour, when walking on a petty lake_.--[MS. M. erased.][ce] {234} _Yon round blue circle swinging in far ether_ _With an inferior circlet dimmer still_.--[MS. M. erased.][111] [Compare-- "And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This
- 490 Scott does not add anything of the kind. The comparison with Shakespeare was written after Byron's death in May, 1824; the appreciation of Cain in December, 1821 (_vide supra_); while the allusion to "a man of quality" is to be found in an
- 489 _Angel_. Where is thy brother Abel?_Cain_. Am I then My brother's keeper?_Angel_. Cain! what hast thou done?The voice of thy slain brother's blood cries out, 470 Even from the ground, unto the Lord!--Now art thou Cursed from the earth, which ope
- 488 No; he will wake; then let me watch by him. 350 Life cannot be so slight, as to be quenched Thus quickly!--he hath spoken to me since-- What shall I say to him?--My brother!--No: He will not answer to that name; for brethren Smite not each other. Yet--yet
- 487 _Cain_. I have chosen._Abel_. 'Tis the highest, And suits thee, as the elder. Now prepare Thine offerings._Cain_. Where are thine?_Abel_. Behold them here-- The firstlings of the flock, and fat thereof-- A shepherd's humble offering._Cain_. I ha
- 486 _Adah_. Surely, 'tis well done._Cain_. One altar may suffice; _I_ have no offering._Adah_. The fruits of the earth,[128] the early, beautiful, Blossom and bud--and bloom of flowers and fruits-- These are a goodly offering to the Lord, Given with a ge
- 485 _Lucifer_. And this should be the human sum Of knowledge, to know mortal nature's nothingness; Bequeath that science to thy children, and 'Twill spare them many tortures._Cain_. Haughty spirit!Thou speak'st it proudly; but thyself, though p
- 484 _Cain_. Why should he not?_Lucifer_. Thy father loves him well--so does thy G.o.d. 340 _Cain_. And so do I._Lucifer_. 'Tis well and meekly done._Cain_. Meekly!_Lucifer_. He is the second born of flesh, And is his mother's favourite._Cain_. Let h
- 483 _Cain_. For crime, I know not; but for pain, I have felt much._Lucifer_. First-born of the first man!Thy present state of sin--and thou art evil, 220 Of sorrow--and thou sufferest, are both Eden In all its innocence compared to what _Thou_ shortly may
- 482 _Cain_. And must I be Like them?_Lucifer_. Let He[116] who made thee answer that.I show thee what thy predecessors are, And what they _were_ thou feelest, in degree 90 Inferior as thy petty feelings and Thy pettier portion of the immortal part Of high int
- 481 _Cain_. The clouds still open wide And wider, and make widening circles round us!_Lucifer_. Advance!_Cain_. And thou!_Lucifer_. Fear not--without me thou Couldst not have gone beyond thy world. On! on![_They disappear through the clouds_.SCENE II.--_Hades
- 480 _Lucifer_. Yea._Cain_. And wilt thou tell me so?Why, I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks In the dim twilight, brighter than yon world Which bears them._Lucifer_. Thou hast seen both worms and worlds, Eac
- 479 _Lucifer_. He shall.With us acts are exempt from time, and we Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour into eternity: We breathe not by a mortal measurement-- But that's a mystery. Cain, come on with me._Adah_. Will he return?_Lucifer_. Ay
- 478 _Adah_. He is not G.o.d--nor G.o.d's: I have beheld The Cherubs and the Seraphs; he looks not Like them._Cain_. But there are spirits loftier still-- The archangels._Lucifer_. And still loftier than the archangels._Adah_. Aye--but not blessed._Lucife
- 477 _Lucifer_. Why?_Cain_. To offer up With Abel on an altar._Lucifer_. Said'st thou not Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee?_Cain_. Yes-- But Abel's earnest prayer has wrought upon me; The offering is more his than mine--and Adah---- _L
- 476 _Lucifer_. And heart to look on?_Cain_. Be it proved._Lucifer_. Darest thou look on Death?_Cain_. He has not yet 250 Been seen._Lucifer_. But must be undergone._Cain_. My father Says he is something dreadful, and my mother Weeps when he's named; and
- 475 _Cain_. How!You know my thoughts?_Lucifer_. They are the thoughts of all Worthy of thought;--'tis your immortal part[98]Which speaks within you._Cain_. What immortal part?This has not been revealed: the Tree of Life Was withheld from us by my father&
- 474 _Eve_. G.o.d! who didst name the day, and separate Morning from night, till then divided never-- Who didst divide the wave from wave, and call Part of thy work the firmament--All Hail!_Abel_. G.o.d! who didst call the elements into Earth, ocean, air and f
- 473 _Cain_ "appeared in conjunction with" _Sardanapalus_ and _The Two Foscari_, December 19, 1821. Last but not least of the three plays, it had been announced "by a separate advertis.e.m.e.nt (_Morning Chronicle_, November 24, 1821), for the p
- 472 [bs]----_he would not_ _Thus leave me_.--[MS. M.][75] {178}[It is to be noted that the "Giunta" was demanded by Loredano himself--a proof of his bona fides, as the addition of twenty-five n.o.bles to the original Ten would add to the chance of o
- 471 [bi] _Their disposition_----.--[MS. M.][56] [It would seem that Byron's "not ourselves" by no means "made for"righteousness.][bj]----_the will itself dependent_ _Upon a storm, a straw, and both alike_ _Leading to death_----.--[MS.
- 470 [35] [Begun June the 12th, completed July the 9th, Ravenna, 1821.--_Byron MS_.][36] [_Gov._ "_The father softens--but the governor is fixed_."_Dingle_. "Aye that ant.i.thesis of persons is a most established figure."--_Critic_, act ii.
- 469 _Doge_. (_walks a few steps, then stops_).I feel athirst--will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water?_Bar._ I---- _Mar._ And I---- _Lor._ And I---- [_The Doge takes a goblet from the hand of_ LOREDANO._Doge_. I take _yours_, Loredano, from the hand Most
- 468 _Doge_. Ah!Your father was my friend.--But _sons_ and _fathers!_-- What, ho! my servants there!_Atten._ My Prince!_Doge_. No Prince-- 200 There are the princes of the Prince![_Pointing to the Ten's Deputation_ --Prepare To part from hence upon the in
- 467 _Mar._ Come, come, old man![_Exeunt the_ DOGE _and_ MARINA._Enter_ BARBARIGO _and_ LOREDANO._Bar._ (_to an Attendant_). Where is the Doge?_Att._ This instant retired hence, With the ill.u.s.trious lady his son's widow._Lor._ Where?_Att._ To the chamb
- 466 _Chief of the Ten_. Will not the Duke Accept the homage of respect?_Doge_. I do Accept it as 'tis given--proceed._Chief of the Ten_. "The Ten,"With a selected giunta from the Senate Of twenty-five of the best born patricians, Having deliber
- 465 The victims are not equal; he has seen His sons expire by natural deaths, and I My sires by violent and mysterious maladies. 280 I used no poison, bribed no subtle master Of the destructive art of healing, to Shorten the path to the eternal cure.His sons-
- 464 _You_ feel it then at last--_you!_--Where is now The Stoic of the State?_Doge_ (_throwing himself down by the body_). _Here!_ _Mar._ Aye, weep on!I thought you had no tears--you h.o.a.rded them Until they are useless; but weep on! he never Shall weep more
- 463 _Jac. Fos._ Double, Triple, and tenfold torture! But you are right, It must be borne. Father, your blessing._Doge_. Would It could avail thee! but no less thou hast it._Jac. Fos._ Forgive---- _Doge_. What?_Jac. Fos._ My poor mother, for my birth, 160 And
- 462 _Bar._ But will the laws uphold us?[69]_Lor._ What laws?--"The Ten" are laws; and if they were not, I will be legislator in this business._Bar._ At your own peril?_Lor._ There is none, I tell you, 40 Our powers are such._Bar._ But he has twice a
- 461 _Lor._ 'Twas so When I came here. The galley floats within A bow-shot of the "Riva di Schiavoni." 400 _Jac. Fos._ Father! I pray you to precede me, and Prepare my children to behold their father._Doge_. Be firm, my son!_Jac. Fos._ I will do
- 460 If race be aught, it is in qualities More than in years; and mine, which is as old As yours, is better in its product, nay-- Look not so stern--but get you back, and pore Upon your genealogic tree's most green 300 Of leaves and most mature of fruits,
- 459 _Jac. Fos._ Ah! you never yet Were far away from Venice, never saw Her beautiful towers in the receding distance, While every furrow of the vessel's track Seemed ploughing deep into your heart; you never 210 Saw day go down upon your native spires[bo
- 458 To darkness more than light, by lending to The dungeon vapours its bituminous smoke, Which cloud whate'er we gaze on, even thine eyes-- No, not thine eyes--they sparkle--how they sparkle!_Jac. Fos._ And thine!--but I am blinded by the torch._Mar._ As
- 457 _Doge_. That can ne'er be.And whither would you fly?_Mar._ I know not, reck not-- To Syria, Egypt, to the Ottoman-- 380 Any where, where we might respire unfettered, And live nor girt by spies, nor liable To edicts of inquisitors of state._Doge_. Wha
- 456 The proof is--your existence._Lor._ I fear not._Doge_. You have no cause, being what I am; but were I That you would have me thought, you long ere now Were past the sense of fear. Hate on; I care not._Lor._ I never yet knew that a n.o.ble's life In V
- 455 _Doge_. Pitied! None Shall ever use that base word, with which men Cloak their soul's h.o.a.rded triumph, as a fit one To mingle with my name; that name shall be, As far as _I_ have borne it, what it was 150 When I received it._Mar._ But for the poor
- 454 _Att._ Prince!_Doge_. Say on._Att._ The ill.u.s.trious lady Foscari Requests an audience._Doge_. Bid her enter. Poor Marina![_Exit Attendant. The_ DOGE _remains in silence as before_._Enter MARINA_._Mar._ I have ventured, father, on Your privacy._Doge_. I
- 453 _Bar._ A Saint had done so, Even with the crown of Glory in his eye, At such inhuman artifice of pain As was forced on him; but he did not cry[az]For pity; not a word nor groan escaped him, And those two shrieks were not in supplication, But wrung from pa
- 452 _Enter an Officer hastily_._Mem._ How now, friend, what seek you? 250 _Offi._ A leech. The prisoner has fainted. [_Exit Officer_._Mem._ Lady, 'Twere better to retire._Sen._ (_offering to a.s.sist her_), I pray thee do so._Mar._ Off! _I_ will tend him
- 451 _Offi._ As you please, Signor; The sentence was not of my signing, but I dared not disobey the Council when They---- _Jac. Fos._ Bade thee stretch me on their horrid engine.I pray thee touch me not--that is, just now; The time will come they will renew th
- 450 _Lor._ When Princes set themselves To work in secret, proofs and process are Alike made difficult; but I have such Of the first, as shall make the second needless._Bar._ But you will move by law?_Lor._ By all the laws Which he would leave us._Bar._ They a
- 449 DRAMATIS PERSONae MEN.FRANCIS FOSCARI, _Doge of Venice_.JACOPO FOSCARI, _Son of the Doge_.JAMES LOREDANO, _a Patrician_.MARCO MEMMO, _a Chief of the Forty_.BARBARIGO, _a Senator_._Other Senators, The Council of Ten, Guards, Attendants, etc., etc._ WOMAN.M
- 448 erased.][30] {103}[Athenaeus represents the treasures which Sardanapalus placed in the chamber erected on his funeral pile as amounting to a thousand myriads of talents of gold, and ten times as many talents of silver.][ap]_Ye will find the crevice_ _To w
- 447 [19] {63}["In the third act, when Sardanapalus calls for a _mirror_ to look at himself in his _armour_, recollect to quote the Latin pa.s.sage from _Juvenal_ upon Otho (a similar character, who did the same thing: Gifford will help you to it). The tr
- 446 [5] {13}[This prince surpa.s.sed all his predecessors in effeminacy, luxury, and cowardice. He never went out of his palace, but spent all his time among a company of women, dressed and painted like them, and employed like them at the distaff. He placed a
- 445 _Sar._ Do so. Is that thy answer?_Myr._ Thou shalt see.[_Exit_ MYRRHA._Sar._ (_solus_). She's firm. My fathers! whom I will rejoin, It may be, purified by death from some Of the gross stains of too material being, I would not leave your ancient first
- 444 _Pan._ I never yet obeyed Your orders with more pleasure than the present.Hence with him, soldiers! do not soil this hall Of royalty with treasonable gore; Put him to rest without._Her._ A single word: My office, King, is sacred._Sar._ And what's _mi
- 443 _Pan._ With your sanction, I will proceed to the spot, and take such measures 210 For the a.s.surance of the vacant s.p.a.ce As time and means permit._Sar._ About it straight, And bring me back, as speedily as full And fair investigation may permit, Repor
- 442 _Enter_ SARDANAPALUS _and Soldiers_._Sar._ My best brother!_Sal._ And the battle Is lost?_Sar._ (_despondingly_). You see _me here_._Sal._ I'd rather see you _thus!_ [_He draws out the weapon from the wound, and dies_._Sar._ And _thus_ I will be seen
- 441 _Myr._ (_at a window_)[28]The day at last has broken. What a night Hath ushered it! How beautiful in heaven!Though varied with a transitory storm, More beautiful in that variety!How hideous upon earth! where Peace and Hope, And Love and Revel, in an hour
- 440 You shall not force me from you._Sar._ Think well of it-- It soon may be too late._Myr._ So let it be; For then you cannot separate me from you._Sar._ And will not; but I thought you wished it._Myr._ I!_Sar._ You spoke of your abas.e.m.e.nt._Myr._ And I f
- 439 _Sal._ What! leave 380 Your children, with two parents and yet orphans-- In a strange land--so young, so distant?_Zar._ No-- My heart will break._Sal._ Now you know all--decide._Sar._ Zarina, he hath spoken well, and we Must yield awhile to this necessity