Phineus : the blind & aged king whom the Argonauts (a band of fifty heroes sent to fetch the Golden Fleece in the ship “Argo”) met at the entrance to the Euxine (q.v.). Phineus told them the course to Colchis & how to pass through the Cyanean rocks – two cliffs that moved on their bases & crushed whoever sought to pass through them.
... thy fellows and thy spits? PHINEUS Knowst thou me not? I am the royal Phineus. Yield up the Princess, fair Andromeda. PERISSUS Art thou the royal Phineus and is this long nose thy sceptre? I am Perissus, the butcher. Stand aside, royal Phineus, or I will chop thee royally with my cleaver. ANDROMEDA What wilt thou with me, King of Tyre? PHINEUS Sweet rose, I come to save... the impious free. CASSIOPEA Phineus,— PHINEUS But if The victim lost return, you cannot then Page 378 Claim Iolaus; then there is no void For substitution. POLYDAON King,— PHINEUS The simpler fault With ransom can be easily excused And covered up in gold. Let him produce The fugitive. IOLAUS Tyrian,— PHINEUS I have not forgotten. Patience... disappears thundering. POLYDAON Yes, Lord! shall not thy dreadful will be done? Phineus enters and his Tyrians with torches. PHINEUS Wherefore has the gong's ominous voice tonight Affrighted Syria? Are you Polydaon Who crouch here? POLYDAON ( rising ) Welcome, King Phineus. PHINEUS Who art thou? Thine eyes roll round in a bright glaring horror Page 426 ...
... all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages I have quoted from Milton, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old,* here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies in the turn which makes them convey a powerful... first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, 12 or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, 13 or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. 14 Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the inspiration of the Illumined Mind and sometimes ...
... Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old... Milton's lines might at first sight be taken because of a certain depth of emotion in their large lingering rhythm as having the overhead complexion, but this rhythm ...
... Sri Aurobindo wants us to consider as an instance, Page 104 On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then Sri Aurobindo goes on: "Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the inspiration of the Illumined ...
... famous but all blind like himself, and the first two of them poets whose fame he would wish to equal as he has equalled their fate: Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. 3 Page 41 After naming these men, he continues what he started saying with "Nightly I visit": Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; ...
... are carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages from Milton: On evil days though fall'n and evil tongues ... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies in the turn which makes them convey a powerful and ...
... Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree or On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old. Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the Page 37 inspiration of the illumined mind ...
... to the poetic level. Take one of the passages I have quoted from Milton, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ... or Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old, here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies in the turn which makes them convey a powerful and ...
... understand your greater predicament. Although one may pride oneself on being in the august company of Milton in his fifties no less than of Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old, or on receiving the same stroke of adverse fate as that superman of music, the aged Beethoven, it is surely preferable to be less distinguished but fully able to appreciate "Summer's ...
... the fruit Of that forbidden tree, or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides Page 61 And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old.... Milton's lines might at first sight be taken because of a certain depth of emotion in their large lingering rhythm as having the overhead complexion, but this rhythm loses ...
... of Paradise Lost, Sri Aurobindo wants us to consider as an instance, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then Sri Aurobindo goes on: "Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the inspiration of the Illumined ...
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