Key quotes Flashcards
quotes for intro of tragic setting
‘into a forest on the shores of Crete’
‘celestial heat’
Description of Lamia
‘palpitating snake’
‘gordan shape’
‘vermillion-spotted’
‘came, as through bubbling honey, for loves sake’
Lamia’s deal with hermes
‘by my power her beauty is veiled’
‘thou shalt behold her…if thou will…grant my boon’
‘so done, upon the nymph his eyes so bent’
Quotes for hermes and nymph
‘her fearful sobs’
‘nor they grew pale as mortal lovers do’
Lamia’s first suffering
‘Her mouth foamed’
‘her eyes in torture fixed’
Description of Lycius
‘Charting foremost in the envious race’
‘like a young jove’
Lamia’s first meeting with Lycius
‘will you leave me on the hills alone?
‘she saw his chain so sure’
‘thou art a scholar Lycius’
Isolation of Lamia and Lycius
‘muffling his face’ (lycius)
‘pillared porch’
‘crystal polish’
‘liquid fine’
‘persian mutes’
moment of happiness ending
‘for all this came a ruin’
came a thrill/ Of trumpets - Lycuis started
‘that but a moment’s though is passions passing bell
introduction of the wedding
‘let me foes choke, and my friends shout afar’
‘her wild and timid nature’
quotes for the inevitability of the tragedy after intro of wedding
‘do not bid / Old Apollonius - from him keep me hid’
‘she could never win/ His foolish heart from its mad pompousness’
description of the wedding
‘the misery’
‘haunting music’
‘fearful the whole charm may fade’
Quotes for Logic vs love
‘Do not all charms fly/ At the mere touch of cold philosophy?’
Quotes for Apollonius
‘he bald headed philosopher/ Had fixed his eye
‘pleasure ceased’
‘deadly silence’
Quotes for suffering after Apollonius has come in
‘Lamia, no longer fair’
‘thou ruthless man’
‘aching ghost’
Quotes for tragic ending
‘no sooner said, /Than with a frightful scream she vanished’
‘Lycius’ arms were empty of delight’
‘And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound’
