Charles Editors

one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

though not of that country

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY
DANAUS

THE KING OF ARGOS

HERALD OF AEGYPTUS

CHORUS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUS

Attendants

About noon, Your Majesty, a light from heaven brighter than the sun shone down on me.

"About noon, Your Majesty, a light from heaven brighter than the sun shone down on me."

It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not

know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind,

neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an

insect.

I swear, gentlemen, that to

be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.

For man’s everyday needs, it would have been quite enough

to have the ordinary human consciousness,

paroxysms of languid adoration

You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower Styria, in Moravia, Silesia, in Turkish Serbia, in Poland, even in Russia; the superstition, so we must call it, of the Vampire.

Anne Boleyn’s coronation