Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with NotesTalboys, 1833 |
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Página 43
... sent them , without demur , instructions for the removal of the plague . The whole demeanour of these impious person- ages , who " Lifted up so high Disdained subjection , and thought one step higher Would set them highest ; " and their ...
... sent them , without demur , instructions for the removal of the plague . The whole demeanour of these impious person- ages , who " Lifted up so high Disdained subjection , and thought one step higher Would set them highest ; " and their ...
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... sent from heaven , stran- ger . MES . Is it to be spoken , or is it not permitted that another know it ? ED . Most certainly it is . For Apollo foretold once that it was my destiny to be my own mother's para- mour , and with mine own ...
... sent from heaven , stran- ger . MES . Is it to be spoken , or is it not permitted that another know it ? ED . Most certainly it is . For Apollo foretold once that it was my destiny to be my own mother's para- mour , and with mine own ...
Página 65
... sent me the best beloved of my children ? Am I right ? CR . Thou art right ; for I am he that supplied thee with these babes , having known the yet lively delight which from old time possessed thee in them . ED . Then all happiness to ...
... sent me the best beloved of my children ? Am I right ? CR . Thou art right ; for I am he that supplied thee with these babes , having known the yet lively delight which from old time possessed thee in them . ED . Then all happiness to ...
Página 85
... sent deeds . ED . Out on them both , all fashioned as they are in nature and breeding of daily life in likeness to the cus- toms of Egypt ! For there the males sit in - doors work- ing at the loom , while their consorts always are pro ...
... sent deeds . ED . Out on them both , all fashioned as they are in nature and breeding of daily life in likeness to the cus- toms of Egypt ! For there the males sit in - doors work- ing at the loom , while their consorts always are pro ...
Página 89
... sent to consult the gods , returning from the Delphic shrine . ED . And has Phoebus declared these things to de- pend upon me ? ISM . So they bring report , coming to the plain of Thebe d . CED . Which then of my sons heard this ? ISM ...
... sent to consult the gods , returning from the Delphic shrine . ED . And has Phoebus declared these things to de- pend upon me ? ISM . So they bring report , coming to the plain of Thebe d . CED . Which then of my sons heard this ? ISM ...
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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!