Aristophanes' Apology: Including a Transcript From Euripides, Being the Last Adventure of Balaustion
Aristophanes' Apology: Including a Transcript From Euripides, Being the Last Adventure of Balaustion
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
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Did it break forth, as gifts divine are wont, Plainly authentic, incontestably Adequate to the helpful ordinance? Founts, dowered with virtue, pulse out pure from source \ 'Tis there we taste the god's benign intent: Not when, — fatigued away by journey, foul With brutish trampling, — crystal sinks to slime, And lymph forgets the first salubriousness. Sprang Comedy to light thus crystal-pure ? * Nowise I ' yourself protest with vehemence ; 'Gross, bestial, did the clowns' diversion break; Every... successor paddled in the slush ; Nay, my contemporaries one and all Gay played the mudlark till I joined their game; d by Google ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY, 159 Then was I first to change buffoonery For wit, and stupid filth for cleanly sense, Transforming pointless joke to purpose fine, Transfusing rude enforcement of home-law — "Drop knave's-tricks, deal more neighbor-like, ye boors!" — With such new glory of poetic breath As, lifting application far past use O' the present, launched it o*er men's lowly heads To future time, when high and low alike Are dead and done with, while my airy power Flies disengaged, as vapor from what stuff It — say not, dwelt — but fitlier, dallied with To forward work, which done, — deliverance brave, — It soars away, and mud subsides to dust.
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