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In the Oresteän trilogy of Aeschylus we have an ever-memorable assertion of the supreme claims of human morality to human allegiance, of the eternal truth that humanity can know no object of reverence and worship except itself idealised, its own virtues victorious over its own vices, and existing in the greatest perfection which it can at any given time conceive.
Jack had to own to himself that, though he strove to make it rigorously esthetic, his seeing of d'Annunzio to take at random one of the fleurs du mal was as a shining, a luridly splendid warning of what happened to decadent people in unpleasant Latin countries. Such lurid splendor was as far from him as the horrors of the Orestean Trilogy. In Mrs.
'A magnificent field for stage effect, certainly. What with those ocean nymphs in their winged chariot, and Ocean on his griffin.... But I should hardly think it safe to reintroduce Zeus and Hermes to the people under the somewhat ugly light in which Aeschylus exhibits them. 'I forgot that, said Hypatia. 'The Orestean trilogy will be best, after all. 'Best? perfect divine!
Over these parts of the programme Ben-Hur sped with rapid eyes. At last he came to the announcement of the race. He read it slowly. Attending lovers of the heroic sports were assured they would certainly be gratified by an Orestean struggle unparalleled in Antioch. The city offered the spectacle in honor of the consul. One hundred thousand sestertii and a crown of laurel were the prizes.
"'There is then no reality?" said I to her. To hope to give birth to a real passion, an Orestean and Pyladean friendship, is a dream from which you must be awakened." 'Then you do not love me?" "You ask me a very awkward question, my darling, I can tell you.
"'There is then no reality?" said I to her. To hope to give birth to a real passion, an Orestean and Pyladean friendship, is a dream from which you must be awakened." "Then you do not love me?" "You ask me a very awkward question, my darling, I can tell you.
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