Chapter Teirtu's Harp to Tellus's Son of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Macready’s performance in Tell [Knowles’s drama] is always first rate. No actor ever affected me more than Macready did in some scenes of that play [1793–1873].—Rogers.

Tellus’s Son, Antæos son of Poseidon and Gê, a giant wrestler of Libya, whose strength was irresistible so long as he touched his mother (earth). Herculês, knowing this, lifted him into the air, and crushed him to death. Near the town of Tingis, in Mauritania, is a hill in the shape of a man called “The Hill of Antæos,” and said to be his tomb.

So some have feigned that Tellus giant son
Drew many new-born lives from his dead mother;
Another rose as soon as one was done,
And twenty lost, yet still remained another.
For when he fell and kissed the barren heath,
His parent straight inspired successive breath,
And tho’ herself was dead, yet ransomed him from death.
   —P. Fletcher: The Purple Island, ix. (1633).

Similarly, Bernado del Carpio lifted Orlando in his arms, and squeezed him to death, because his body was proof against any instrument of war.