EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... HERCULES . - THE PHRENZY OF HERCULES , · 158 • 11 IX . THE TALE OF TROY : HECUBA - THE TROJAN WOMEN , 172 · X. THE CYCLOPS , 189 EURIPIDES . CHAPTER I. ATHENS IN THE DAYS OF EURIPIDES.
... HERCULES . - THE PHRENZY OF HERCULES , · 158 • 11 IX . THE TALE OF TROY : HECUBA - THE TROJAN WOMEN , 172 · X. THE CYCLOPS , 189 EURIPIDES . CHAPTER I. ATHENS IN THE DAYS OF EURIPIDES.
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... Hercules , and so was coeval with the Argonauts : and even Theseus had his royal predecessors . And if the Athenian studied the national chronicles , or listened by the winter fireside to the stories of old times , he did not blush for ...
... Hercules , and so was coeval with the Argonauts : and even Theseus had his royal predecessors . And if the Athenian studied the national chronicles , or listened by the winter fireside to the stories of old times , he did not blush for ...
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... Hercules , would find himself seated beside one who had brought a cargo of wheat from Sinope , on the Euxine Sea . A hybrid - half - Greek , half - Egyptian - of Canopus , would have on his right hand a tent - maker from Tarsus , on his ...
... Hercules , would find himself seated beside one who had brought a cargo of wheat from Sinope , on the Euxine Sea . A hybrid - half - Greek , half - Egyptian - of Canopus , would have on his right hand a tent - maker from Tarsus , on his ...
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... Hercules ; we may therefore infer that the group to which these two plays belonged was made up of fables unconnected with each other -a departure from earlier practice that did not origi- nate with Euripides , though he is sometimes ...
... Hercules ; we may therefore infer that the group to which these two plays belonged was made up of fables unconnected with each other -a departure from earlier practice that did not origi- nate with Euripides , though he is sometimes ...
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... Hercules , or Bacchus , be parodied by them on the stage . The idols of the temple were by the vulgar esteemed true portraits of the beings whom they affected to revere , but at whom they were always ready to laugh . Neptune and Hercules ...
... Hercules , or Bacchus , be parodied by them on the stage . The idols of the temple were by the vulgar esteemed true portraits of the beings whom they affected to revere , but at whom they were always ready to laugh . Neptune and Hercules ...
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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...