Euripides, Volume 3William Blackwood and Sons, 1876 - 204 páginas |
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... lived in ; he derived from the circumstances in which his lot was cast many of the features that distinguish him from A. C. vol . xii . A Eschylus and Sophocles . As a citizen , he differed STANFORD EURIPIDES . LIBRARY.
... lived in ; he derived from the circumstances in which his lot was cast many of the features that distinguish him from A. C. vol . xii . A Eschylus and Sophocles . As a citizen , he differed STANFORD EURIPIDES . LIBRARY.
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William Bodham Donne. Eschylus and Sophocles . As a citizen , he differed from them almost as widely as if he had not ... citizens , Athens was indeed little more than a cluster of villages sur- rounded by a common wall . A wooden rampart ...
William Bodham Donne. Eschylus and Sophocles . As a citizen , he differed from them almost as widely as if he had not ... citizens , Athens was indeed little more than a cluster of villages sur- rounded by a common wall . A wooden rampart ...
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... citizens . If , on the other hand , he wished to be a public lecturer - that is to say , a philosopher - plain Pythagorean rules for the conduct of life , or Solon's Bishop Thirlwall's Hist . of Greece , iv . 268 . elegiac maxims , no ...
... citizens . If , on the other hand , he wished to be a public lecturer - that is to say , a philosopher - plain Pythagorean rules for the conduct of life , or Solon's Bishop Thirlwall's Hist . of Greece , iv . 268 . elegiac maxims , no ...
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... citizens were a strange mixture of refinement and coarseness , of intelligence and ignorance . For intellect and taste , no city , ancient or modern , has ever made for its members so varied and sumptuous a provision as she afforded to ...
... citizens were a strange mixture of refinement and coarseness , of intelligence and ignorance . For intellect and taste , no city , ancient or modern , has ever made for its members so varied and sumptuous a provision as she afforded to ...
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... citizens were , and felt themselves to be , in the van of Greek cultivation . They hailed with applause the praises addressed to them by the dramatic poets - and the praises were no idle flattery . Was it not a truth that , had it not ...
... citizens were , and felt themselves to be , in the van of Greek cultivation . They hailed with applause the praises addressed to them by the dramatic poets - and the praises were no idle flattery . Was it not a truth that , had it not ...
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A. C. vol Acharnians Achilles Admetus Agamemnon Alcestis Alcibiades Apollo appears Argive Argos Aristophanes Athenian Athens audience Aulis Bacchanals Bacchus Birds brought burlesque caricature Cario character Chorus Chremylus citizens Cleon Clytemnestra comedy comes comic court Creon Creusa daughter death deities Demosthenes Dicæopolis drama dramatist Electra Eschylus Euripides eyes father festival follows goddess gods Greece Greek guest hand Hecuba Helen Hercules Hippolytus Iphigenia Jupiter king lady Lamachus Lysistrata master Medea Menelaus modern moral mother never once oracle Orestes peace Peisthetærus Pentheus perhaps Pericles person Pheidippides philosopher play Plutus poet Pylades Pylos readers satire satirist says scene servant slave Socrates song Sophocles Spartans spectators stage stranger tell temple theatre Theban Thebes thee Theseus things thou tion tragedy Troy Ulysses wife women Xanthias Xuthus young youth
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Página 85 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees: Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Página 33 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 107 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Página 1 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Página 144 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Página 100 - My father held his hand upon his face ; I, blinded with my tears, " Still strove to speak : my voice was thick with sighs As in a dream. Dimly I could descry The stern black-bearded kings with wolfish eyes, Waiting to see me die. " The high masts flicker'd as they lay afloat ; The crowds, the temples, waver'd, and the shore ; The bright death quiver'd at the victim's throat ; Touch'd ; and I knew no more.
Página 85 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 163 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 65 - Envye is lavender of the court alway ; For she ne parteth, neither night ne day, Out of the hous of Cesar ; thus seith L)ante ; Who-so that goth, algate she wol nat wante.
Página 33 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.