EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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Página 63
... Achilles -then a youth whose heart had not been hard- ened by war - the following attack on Calchas the seer : - " His lustral lavers and his salted cakes With sorrow shall the prophet Calchas bear : Away ! The prophet ! -what is he ? a ...
... Achilles -then a youth whose heart had not been hard- ened by war - the following attack on Calchas the seer : - " His lustral lavers and his salted cakes With sorrow shall the prophet Calchas bear : Away ! The prophet ! -what is he ? a ...
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... Achilles of his " Iphigenia , " and above all , in the character of the boy Ion . " Conse- crated to Apollo , and devoting himself wholly to the service of the altar , he speaks of his patron god in lan- guage that would not dishonour a ...
... Achilles of his " Iphigenia , " and above all , in the character of the boy Ion . " Conse- crated to Apollo , and devoting himself wholly to the service of the altar , he speaks of his patron god in lan- guage that would not dishonour a ...
Página 68
... Achilles , is the type of an Achæan ; Themistocles , far more than Aristides , that of an Athenian Greek . Euripides , who represents men as they are , and not as they ought to be , did not disdain to employ in his plays this common ...
... Achilles , is the type of an Achæan ; Themistocles , far more than Aristides , that of an Athenian Greek . Euripides , who represents men as they are , and not as they ought to be , did not disdain to employ in his plays this common ...
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... Achilles in the Shades , when Ulysses congratulated him on being so honoured among dead heroes : - " Renowned Ulysses , think not death a theme Of consolation : I had rather live , The servile hind for hire , and eat the bread Of some ...
... Achilles in the Shades , when Ulysses congratulated him on being so honoured among dead heroes : - " Renowned Ulysses , think not death a theme Of consolation : I had rather live , The servile hind for hire , and eat the bread Of some ...
Página 101
... Achilles . The " Iphigenia in Aulis , " in its relation to the Grecian world , possessed , we may fairly surmise , universal interest . For an audience composed , as that in the Dionysiac theatre was , of Athenians , allies , and ...
... Achilles . The " Iphigenia in Aulis , " in its relation to the Grecian world , possessed , we may fairly surmise , universal interest . For an audience composed , as that in the Dionysiac theatre was , of Athenians , allies , and ...
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A. C. vol Achæan Achilles Admetus Agamemnon Agavè Alcestis ancient Apollo appears Argive Argos Aristophanes Athenian Athens Attica audience Aulis avenge Bacchanals Bacchus beautiful brother Cadmus Cæsar character Chorus Clytemnestra comedy comic Creon Creusa crown Cyclops daughter dead death deities Diana divine drama Electra English readers Eschylus Euri Euripidean Euripides eyes faith fate father fear goddess gods Grecian Greece Greek guest hand Hecuba Helen Hercules Hippolytus honour human husband Iphigenia Jason Jupiter king land legend Medea Menelaus mortal mother murder Odyssey Orestes passed Pella Pentheus perhaps Pericles Phædra philosopher pides play poet Polyphemus Pylades Queen robe satyric says scene seized servant Silenus slave Socrates song sons Sophocles spectators stage story stranger tears temple theatre Theban Thebes thee Theseus thou tion tragedy tragic Trojan Women Troy Ulysses victim virgin wife wild wrath Xuthus young youth
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Página 33 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
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 89 - 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 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 100 - I was cut off from hope in that sad place, Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears : 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.
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.
Página 109 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
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...