The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with NotesW. Jackson, 1837 - 307 páginas |
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... present sovereign of my country , us indeed thou beholdest , of what ages we are who sit as suppliants be- fore thine altars here ; some of us not yet of strength to wing our flight afar ; others priests weighed down with old age ...
... present sovereign of my country , us indeed thou beholdest , of what ages we are who sit as suppliants be- fore thine altars here ; some of us not yet of strength to wing our flight afar ; others priests weighed down with old age ...
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... present indeed this our land celebrates thee as its preserver for thy former zeal - but O ! may we in no wise remember thy reign in particular for our having both regained our footing and afterwards fallen : no ; in unrelaps- ing ...
... present indeed this our land celebrates thee as its preserver for thy former zeal - but O ! may we in no wise remember thy reign in particular for our having both regained our footing and afterwards fallen : no ; in unrelaps- ing ...
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... present speech at least . CR . If thou choosest to hear while these are by , I am ready to tell thee , or if [ thou choosest ] to retire within doors . ED . Speak openly to all , for I make more account of the sorrows of these my people ...
... present speech at least . CR . If thou choosest to hear while these are by , I am ready to tell thee , or if [ thou choosest ] to retire within doors . ED . Speak openly to all , for I make more account of the sorrows of these my people ...
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... present examination in the cause of the deceased : so that deservedly ye will see me also your abettor , avenging at once my land here , and the god . For in behalf , not of my more distant friends , but myself of myself , shall I ...
... present examination in the cause of the deceased : so that deservedly ye will see me also your abettor , avenging at once my land here , and the god . For in behalf , not of my more distant friends , but myself of myself , shall I ...
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... present doom , and by one yet more hateful than this . But to you the other Cadmæans , as many as these designs are acceptable to , may both the friendly power , Justice , and all the gods , weal , be present evermore . CH . Even as ...
... present doom , and by one yet more hateful than this . But to you the other Cadmæans , as many as these designs are acceptable to , may both the friendly power , Justice , and all the gods , weal , be present evermore . CH . Even as ...
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Achilles Ægisthus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antigone Apollo art thou Atridæ aught bear behold Brunck child Chorus Clytemnestra Creon curses daughter dead death deed Deianira didst dost thou dreadful earth Edipus Electra Euripides Eurytus evil eyes fate fear friends gods Greeks hand hast thou hateful hath hear heard heaven Hercules Hermann hither honour Ismene Jove king knowest Laïus lament land least lest look means MESS misery mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never oh father Orestes pain perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices possess present quod sayest thou scholiast Sophocles speak stranger suffer sure Tecmessa tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself Tiresias tomb translates Troy Ulysses unhappy utter virgins wert Wherefore wilt thou wish woman words wouldst wretched καὶ
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Página 44 - 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 245 - 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 292 - 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 237 - 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...
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Página 250 - What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ! Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Página 169 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Página 134 - 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 67 - Thou hast come, O stranger, to the seats of this land, renowned for the steed ; to seats the fairest on earth, the chalky Colonus ; where the vocal nightingale, chief abounding, trills her plaintive note in the green vales...