Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with NotesTalboys, 1833 |
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... unhappy existence . But on myself I call down , should he be an inmate in these my halls with my privacy , the very penalties which I have just now invoked on these . But on you I strictly impose the performance of all this , both on my ...
... unhappy existence . But on myself I call down , should he be an inmate in these my halls with my privacy , the very penalties which I have just now invoked on these . But on you I strictly impose the performance of all this , both on my ...
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... unhappy ! It seems I have , without knowing it , even now forced myself prematurely into horrid curses . Jo . How sayest thou ? verily I shudder as I glance at thee , O king . ED . Fearfully am I despondent , lest the prophet saw too ...
... unhappy ! It seems I have , without knowing it , even now forced myself prematurely into horrid curses . Jo . How sayest thou ? verily I shudder as I glance at thee , O king . ED . Fearfully am I despondent , lest the prophet saw too ...
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... unhappy man ! for this only have I to say to thee , but other word hereafter - none . CH . For what possible cause can the queen be gone , O Edipus , having rushed away under the im- pulse of a wild anguish ? I dread lest from this very ...
... unhappy man ! for this only have I to say to thee , but other word hereafter - none . CH . For what possible cause can the queen be gone , O Edipus , having rushed away under the im- pulse of a wild anguish ? I dread lest from this very ...
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... unhappy woman ! means ? By what earthly But of the action since the eyewit- M. E. Herself by her own hand . the most painful part is spared us , ness is not ours ; but yet , as far at least as the memory of them resides in me , thou ...
... unhappy woman ! means ? By what earthly But of the action since the eyewit- M. E. Herself by her own hand . the most painful part is spared us , ness is not ours ; but yet , as far at least as the memory of them resides in me , thou ...
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... unhappy , noblest by birth of any one at least in Thebes , have bereaved mine own self , myself enjoining all to thrust out the impious , the man branded of heaven as polluted . And could I , having exposed such a blot on the race of ...
... unhappy , noblest by birth of any one at least in Thebes , have bereaved mine own self , myself enjoining all to thrust out the impious , the man branded of heaven as polluted . And could I , having exposed such a blot on the race of ...
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Achilles Ægisthus Æschylus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antigone art thou Atridæ aught bear behold Brunck child Chorus Clytemnestra Creon daughter dead death deed Deianira didst dost thou dreadful earth Edipus Electra Euripides Eurytus evil eyes fate father fear friends gods Greeks hand hast thou hath hear heard heaven Hercules Herm Hermann hither honour Ismene Jove king knowest Laïus lament land least lest look MESS misery mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never oh father Orestes pain Pelops perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices present quod sayest thou scholiast Sophocles sorrow speak stranger suffer sure Tecmessa tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself tomb translates Troy Ulysses unhappy utter virgins wert Wherefore wilt thou wish woman words wouldst wretched καὶ
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Página 68 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 371 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 442 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 347 - There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
Página 257 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Página 359 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 158 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 209 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Página 163 - Argos' fruitful shore, There shalt thou live his son, his honours share, And with Orestes' self divide his care. Yet more : three daughters in his court are bred, And each well worthy of a royal bed ; Laodice and Iphigenia fair, And bright Chrysothemis with golden hair; Her...
Página 382 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!