Pericles and Aspasia, 2 tomas |
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abstain accusation AGAMEMNON Alcibiades ALCIBIADES TO PERICLES ANAXAGORAS TO ASPASIA appear Aristides ASPASIA TO ANAXAGORAS ASPASIA TO CLEONE ASPASIA TO PERICLES Athenians Athens Attica authority Bacchus beautiful believe better bosom brave child citizens CLEONE TO ASPASIA command Corinth Corinthians courage cried dæmon delight Diopithes earth enemies Epimenides Eschylus Euripides eyes father fear fond friends Gaul genius glory gods Greece hand happy hath hear heard heart Herodotus hope human idle imagine Ionian IPHIGENEIA king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Lampsacus less little Pericles live look Melanthus metempsychosis Miletus mind never passions Peloponese perhaps PERICLES TO ASPASIA Persia pestilence philosophers Phormio Pisander poetry poets possess priests Proxenus publick Pythagoras religion replied Romans Sabines Samians Samos SEMICHORUS Socrates soldiers Sophocles Sosigenes Spartans surely tell temples thee thing thou art thought Thucydides tion verses voice wisdom words write Xanthippus
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51 psl. - Show me rather how great projects were executed, great advantages gained, and great calamities averted. Show me the generals and the statesmen who stood foremost, that I may bend to them in reverence ; tell me their names, that I may repeat them to my children.
227 psl. - From Herodotus I have listened to the most instructive history, conveyed in a language the most copious and the most harmonious, — a man worthy to carry away the collected suffrages of universal Greece, a man worthy to throw open the temples of Egypt and to celebrate the exploits of Cyrus.
78 psl. - has not the fine manners of Sophocles; but," she adds good-humoredly, "the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please, on the world that belongs to them, and before the creatures they have animated.
226 psl. - ... it, — for within it have existed the greater part of those who, since the origin of the world, have been the luminaries of the human race. Damon called me from my music to look at Aristides on his way to exile; and my father pressed the wrist by which he was leading me along, and whispered in my ear: "Walk quickly by; glance cautiously; it is there Miltiades is in prison.
226 psl. - Aspasia, in the beginning of our loves, to communicate our thoughts by writing, even while we were both in Athens, and when we had many reasons for it, we little foresaw the more powerful one that has rendered it necessary of late. We never can meet again : the laws forbid it, and love itself enforces them. Let wisdom be heard by you as imperturbably, and affection as authoritatively, as ever : and remember that the sorrow of Pericles can arise but from the bosom of Aspasia. There is only one word...
51 psl. - History, when she has lost her Muse, will lose her dignity, her occupation, her character, her name. She will wander about the Agora ; she will start, she will stop, she will look wild, she will look stupid, she will take languidly to her bosom doubts, queries, essays, dissertations, some of which ought to go before her, some to follow, and all to stand apart. The field of History should not merely be well tilled, but well peopled. None is delightful to me, or interesting, in which I find not as...
226 psl. - When we agreed, O Aspasia, in the beginning of our loves, to communicate our thoughts by writing, even while we were both in Athens, and when we had many reasons for it, we little foresaw the more powerful one that has rendered it necessary of late.
228 psl. - And now, at the close of my day, when every light is dim and every guest departed, let me own that these wane before me, remembering, as I do in the pride and fulness of my heart, that Athens confided her glory, and Aspasia her happiness, to me. Have I been a faithful guardian ? do I resign them to the custody of the Gods undiminished and unimpaired. Welcome then, welcome, my last hour ! After enjoying for so great a number of years, in my public and my private life, what I believe has never been...
227 psl. - Egypt, and to celebrate the exploits of Cyrus. And from Thucydides, who alone can succeed to him, how recently did my Aspasia hear with me the energetic praises of his just supremacy ! As if the festival of life were incomplete, and wanted one great ornament to crown it, Phidias placed before us, in ivory and gold, the tutelary Deity of this land, and the Zeus of Homer and Olympus.
51 psl. - I may bend to them in reverence ; tell me their names, that I may repeat them to my children. Teach me whence laws were introduced, upon what foundation laid, by what custody guarded, in what inner keep preserved. Let the books of the treasury lie closed as religiously as the Sibyl's ; leave weights and measures in the market-place, Commerce in the harbour, the Arts in the light they love, Philosophy in the shade ; place History on her rightful throne, and at the sides of her Eloquence and War.