T was in those ancient days coeval deemed With the song-famous and heroic ones, When Agamemnon, taught divinely, doomed His daughter to expire at Dian's shrine, — So doomed, to free the chivalry of Greece, In Aulis lingering for a favoring wind To waft... Jephthah's Daughter - Page 3by Charles Heavysege - 1865 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1876 - 608 pages
...throughout The first stanzas give a key to the whole, and are full of sweet and sad music : — " 'Twas in the olden days of Israel, When from her people...His daughter on the altar of the Lord : — 'Twas in these ancient days, coeval deemed With the song-famous and heroic ones, When Agamemnon, taught divinely,... | |
| Bayard Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 404 pages
...Israel, When from her people rose up mighty men To judge and to defend her ; ere she knew, Or clamored for, her coming line of kings, A father, rashly vowing,...sacrificed His daughter on the altar of the Lord; — 'T was iu those ancient days, coeval deemed With the song-famous and heroic ones, When Agamemnon,... | |
| Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1901 - 1052 pages
...sympathy, comforts her father and mother in their intolerable grief. The poem opens in these words: 'Twas in the olden days of Israel, When, from her people,...heroic ones, When Agamemnon, taught divinely, doomed Hit daughter to expire at Dian's shrine .... Two songs with but one burden, twin-like tales. Sad tales,... | |
| American essays - 1865 - 834 pages
...Israel, When from her people rose up mighty men To judge and to defend her : ere she knew, Or clamored for, her coming line of kings, A father, rashly vowing, sacrificed His daughter on the altar of the Lord ; — T was in those ancient days coeval deemed With the song-famous and heroic ones, When Agamemnon,... | |
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