"Lemnian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... share thine unendanger'd throne. To this thou would'st have answer. Take it: Fly!... Cut short thy triumph, seeming at its height; Fling off thy crown, supposed at last secure; Forsake this ample, proud Messenian realm; To some small, humble, and unnoted strand, Some rock more lonely than that Lemnian isle Where Philoctetes pined, take ship and flee! Some solitude more inaccessible Than the ice-bastion'd Caucasian Mount Chosen a prison for Prometheus, climb! There in unvoiced oblivion sink thy name, And bid the sun, thine only visitant, Divulge not to the far-off world of ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... attention to the notes he had been working at the day before. Presently he wanted a reference—a line from the Philoctetes. 'The Lemnian fire'—where on earth was the passage? He lifted his head instinctively. If only she had been there—it was monstrous that she wasn't there!—he would just have thrown the question across the room, and got an answer. Her verbal memory ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... to have had various significations; it was used for cinnabaris, minium, red lead, and rubrica, red ochre. There were various kinds of rubricae; all were, however, red oxides, of which the best were the Lemnian, from the Isle of Lemnos, and the Cappadocian, called by the Romans rubrica sinopica, from Sinope in Paphlagonia. Minium, red oxide of lead, red lead, was called by the Romans cerussa usta, and, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... fall! But who is he,[84] that, by yon gloomy cave, Bids heaven and earth bear witness to his woe! And hark! how hollowly the ocean-wave Echoes his plaint, and murmurs deep below! Haste, let the tall ship stem the tossing tide, That he may leave his cave, and hear no more 90 The Lemnian surges unrejoicing roar; And be great Fate through the dark world thy guide, Sad Philoctetes![85] So Instruction bland, With young-eyed Sympathy, went hand in hand O'er classic fields; and let my heart confess Its holier joy, when I essayed to climb The lonely heights where ...
— The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 • William Lisle Bowles
... what AEschylus says, who was not only a poet, but a Pythagorean philosopher, also, for that is the account which you have received of him; how doth he make Prometheus bear the pain he suffered for the Lemnian theft, when he clandestinely stole away the celestial fire, and bestowed it on men, and was severely punished by Jupiter for the theft. Fastened to mount Caucasus, ...
— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero |
