The Agamemnon of Æschylus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...Try for Clive!" thought I: " Let's venture some good rattling question!" So--"Come, Clive, tell us"--out I blurted--"what to tell in turn, years hence, When my boy--suppose I have one--asks me on what evidence I maintain my friend of Plassy proved a warrior every whit Worth your Alexanders, Caesars, Marlboroughs and--what said Pitt?--70 Frederick the Fierce himself! Clive told me once "--I want to say--"Which feat out of all those famous doings bore the bell away--In his own calm estimation, mark you, not the mob's rough guess--Which stood foremost as evincing what Clive called courageousness! Come! what moment of the minute, what speck-centre in the wide Circle of the action saw your mortal fairly deified? (Let alone that filthy sleep-stuff, swallow bold this wholesome Port!) If a friend has leave to question,--when were you most brave, in short?" Up he arched his brows o' the instant--formidably Clive again. "When was I most brave? I'd answer, were the instance half as plain 80 As another instance that's a brain-lodged crystal--curse it!--here Freezing when my memory touches--ugh!--the time I felt most fear. Ugh! I cannot say for certain if I showed fear--anyhow, Fear I felt, and, very likely, shuddered, since I shiver now." "Fear!" smiled I. "Well, that's the rarer: that's a specimen to seek, Ticket up in one's museum, Mind-Freaks, Lord Clive's Fear, Urtique!" Down his brows dropped. On the table painfully he pored as though Tracing, in the stains and streaks there, thoughts encrusted long ago. When he spoke 't was like a lawyer reading word by word some will, Some blind jungle of a statement,--beating on and on until 90 Out there leaps fierce life to fight with. "This fell i...