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Three Five-Act Plays and Twelve Dramatic Scenes; Suitable for Private Theatricals or Drawing-Room Recitation
Three Five-Act Plays and Twelve Dramatic Scenes Suitable for Private Theatricals or Drawing-Room Recitation Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: W. H. Allen Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sel... more »ect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 223 ALEIANDER AT LAMPSACUS. A True Dramatic Incident of Old Times; according to Lempriere, Abbott's "Life of Alexander/' and Rollin's "Ancient History." Hecat. us, a Greek warrior, meets Anaximenes, a robed philosopher, on the shore of the Hellespont. Hecat. eus. Hail, Anaximenes ! 'tis just a year Since at King Phillip's court I met thee last: How many notes, thou sage historian, Hast thou recorded in that little year ? Anaximenes. A month of you boy-conqueror's bloody deeds Would fill a volume; noble Hecataeus, Ever since mad Pausanias killed the king And Alexander seized his sovereignty The world has been amazed at one so young Achieving exploits worthy of a god, -- For which all Greece with one united voice (Except indeed the sour Demosthenes) Hath chosen him -- this youth -- their general: -- Till, on some rumour of his death in battle, The Thebans, jealous of great Macedon, Murdered a garrison he left with them, And on his eagle flight for vengeance back Dared him to do his worst. Ah me ! that worst! Thebes, with its temples and its palaces, Is now an utter ruin, razed to the ground, All but the house of Pindarus the poet! And, taken as the city was by storm, -- The few survivors have been sold for slaves. Never was known revenge so terrible. Hecatus. Ay : this young conqueror of some twenty summers While fierce and fast in action, hath a will Of iron welded cold. Who but himself Would seize the Delphian priestess on her tripod, Forcing an oracle ? and when she shrieked " O son, thou art invincible ! " -- "Enough 1" ...« less