Then among them the father of men and gods began to speak, for he bethought him in his heart of noble Aegisthus, whom the son of Agamemnon, far- famed Orestes, slew. Thinking upon him he spake out among the Immortals: 'Lo you now, how vainly mortal men do blame the gods! For of...
The poems of Dr. Watts were, by my recommendation, inserted in the late Collection, the readers of which are to impute to me whatever pleasure or weariness they may find in the perusal of Blackmore, Watts, Pomfret, and Yalden. Isaac Watts was born July 17, 1674, at Southampton, where ...
Why, Lord! you can no more become a gentleman than I can or the–blunderbuss yonder. And because why? Because a gentleman must be a gentleman born, and his father afore him, and _his_ father afore him. You, Barnabas, you was born the son of a Champion of England, an’ that ...
"See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to d...
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