340 examples of prometheus in sentences

During that month he wrote the Monody on Sheridan, The Dream, Churchill's Grave, the Sonnet to Lake Leman, Could I remount the River of my Years, part of Manfred, Prometheus, the Stanzas to Augusta, beginning, My sister!

Shelley refers to the hyacinth in another passage (Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc. 1) which seems to indicate that he regarded the antique hyacinth as being the same as the modern hyacinth, 'As the blue bells Of hyacinth tell Apollo's written grief.' 1. 8.

See Prometheus Unbound, Act 4: 'Our feet now, every palm, Are sandalled with calm'; and The Triumph of Life: 'As she moved under the mass Of the deep cavern, and, with palms so tender Their tread broke not the mirror of the billow, Glided along the river.'

There is a somewhat similar train of thought in Prometheus Unbound,where Prometheus the Titan, after enduring the torture of the Furies (Act 1), says 'Peace is in the grave: The grave holds all things beautiful and good, I am a God, and cannot find it there.' +Stanza 27,+ 11. 1-4. 'O gentle child, beautiful as thou wert, Why didst thou leave,' &c.

There is a somewhat similar train of thought in Prometheus Unbound,where Prometheus the Titan, after enduring the torture of the Furies (Act 1), says 'Peace is in the grave: The grave holds all things beautiful and good, I am a God, and cannot find it there.' +Stanza 27,+ 11. 1-4. 'O gentle child, beautiful as thou wert, Why didst thou leave,' &c.

And in Prometheus Unbound (Act i) 'Regard this earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise?

In Prometheus Unbound (Act ii, sc. 4) Eternity, symbolised in Demo-gorgon, is described in terms not wholly unlike those which we are now debating: 'I see a mighty Darkness

Mr. Pococke will have it that Greece was a migrated India: it was, of course, a migration from some place that first planted the Hellenic stock in Europe; but if the man who carved the Zeus, and built the Parthenon, and wrote the "Prometheus" and the "Phaedrus," were a copy, where shall we find the original?

Thus when Orpheus, trying to rescue Eurydice from "the infernal regions," interrupts with "his harmonious strains" the tortures of eternal punishment, Prometheus did not doubtless show as much delight as he ought to have done, on discovering that the beak of the vulture was no longer gnawing at his vitals, "scarcely daring to believe in such good fortune."

Orpheus is the Commune; Eurydice, Liberty; "the infernal regions," the Government of the 4th September; "the harmonious strains," the decrees of the Commune; Prometheus, the tenant; and the vulture, the landlord!

But Prometheus, taking pity on them, determined in his mind to free them from that slavery and to teach them to rise above the beasts, by seeing things as they are.

It seems to me then, Phaethon and Alcibiades, that if we find ourselves in anywise destitute of this heavenly fire, we should pray for the coming of that day, when Prometheus shall be unbound from Caucasus, if by any means he may take pity on us and on our children, and again bring us down from heaven that fire which is the spirit of truth, that we may see facts as they are.

And indeed, I think that the poets, as is their custom, corrupt the minds of young men by telling them that Zeus chained Prometheus to Caucasus for his theft; seeing that it befits such a ruler, as I take the Father of gods and men to be, to know that his subjects can only do well by means of his bounty, and therefore to bestow it freely, as the kings of Persia do, on all who are willing to use it in the service of their sovereign.

"From clime to clime, from shore to shore, Shall thrill the magic thread; The new Prometheus steals once more The fire that wakes the dead.

There is one spot less upon the sun since the theft from heaven of Prometheus Daguerre and his fellow-adventurers has enabled us to understand the ancient legend.

" PROMETHEUS AND THE MAKING OF MAN At the bidding of Jupiter, Prometheus set about the creation of Man and the other animals.

" PROMETHEUS AND THE MAKING OF MAN At the bidding of Jupiter, Prometheus set about the creation of Man and the other animals.

Prometheus did as he was bidden, and this is the reason why some people have the forms of men but the souls of beasts.

(PROMETHEUS) I Speak!

Prometheus is unbound now; and his despair is only a memory sanctifying his present happiness.

The one is, that men of highly original ideas, like the mythical Prometheus, arose from time to time in the dawn of human progress, and left their respective marks on the world by being the first to subjugate the camel, the llama, the reindeer, the horse, the ox, the sheep, the hog, the dog, or some other animal to the service of man.

Karl Marx; Prometheus and Lucifer.

The new Prometheus.

The new Prometheus.

The new Prometheus.

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