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Ibsen's Prose Dramas: Emperor and Galilean ... [Tr. by William Archer
Ibsen's Prose Dramas Emperor and Galilean Tr by William Archer Author:Henrik Ibsen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Gregory. No, it was not here;—not with phrase against phrase, not with book against book, not with mere verbal sword-play in the lecture-room! No, Julian, you mu... more »st go forth into life itself, with your own life in your hands Julian. I see it; I see it! Gregory. Yes, as Libanius sees it! You mocked at him. You said he knew the essence and the outward signs of all the virtues, but his doctrine was only a doctrine to him. How much of you belongs to God ? How much may the Emperor demand ? JULIAN. You said yourself it was unseemly Gregory. Towards whom? Towards God or the Emperor ? JULIAN (quickly). Well then ; shall we go together? Gregory (evasively). I have my little circle; I have my family to watch over. I have neither strength nor talent for a larger task. JULIAN (is about to answer; suddenly he listens towards the right, and calls oat). To the bacchanal! BASILIUS. Julian! JULIAN. To the bacchanal, friends! (gregory Of NAzianzus looks at him a moment; then he goes off through the colonnade to the left. A large troop of scholars, with the new-comers among them, rushes into the square, amid shouts and noise?) BASILIUS (coming nearer). Julian, will you listen to me? JULIAN. See, see! They have taken their new friends to the bath, and anointed their hair. See how they swing their cudgels ; how they yell andthump the pavement! What say you, Pericles ? I think I can hear your wrathful shade Basilius. Come, come! Julian. Ah, look at the man they are driving naked among them. Now come the dancing-girls. Ah, do you see what ! BASILIUS. Fie ! Fie !—turn away your eyes! (Evening has fallen. The whole troop settles down in the square beside the fountain. Wine and fruits are brought. Painted damsels dance by torchlight.) JULIAN (after a short silenc...« less