EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... Theban phalanx . In the intervals of these mimic or serious spectacles , he could study the works of the most consummate artists the earth has ever produced ; gaze in the gymnasium on liv- ing beauty , grace , and strength ; or , if ...
... Theban phalanx . In the intervals of these mimic or serious spectacles , he could study the works of the most consummate artists the earth has ever produced ; gaze in the gymnasium on liv- ing beauty , grace , and strength ; or , if ...
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... Theban royal houses would have but little interest . Their forefathers had taken no part in the quarrel between Eteocles and Polynices , cared little for the authority of the Areopagus , had local deities and myths of their own , among ...
... Theban royal houses would have but little interest . Their forefathers had taken no part in the quarrel between Eteocles and Polynices , cared little for the authority of the Areopagus , had local deities and myths of their own , among ...
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... Theban and Argive Houses — has been taxed with a want of proper tragical grandeur , as if a picture of human passion were less fit for the drama than one of the strife between Fate and Free- will . CHAPTER V. THE TWO IPHIGENIAS . " I ...
... Theban and Argive Houses — has been taxed with a want of proper tragical grandeur , as if a picture of human passion were less fit for the drama than one of the strife between Fate and Free- will . CHAPTER V. THE TWO IPHIGENIAS . " I ...
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... Theban sceptre to his grandson Pentheus , was by birth a Phoenician , not a Boeotian . He lived before the Greek Argo had rushed through the blue Symplegades to the Colchian strand . He is beyond recorded time ; he " antiquates " common ...
... Theban sceptre to his grandson Pentheus , was by birth a Phoenician , not a Boeotian . He lived before the Greek Argo had rushed through the blue Symplegades to the Colchian strand . He is beyond recorded time ; he " antiquates " common ...
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... Theban women is soon gratified . Bac- chus , in a comely human form , is brought manacled before him . The king , thinking that now he cannot escape , leisurely contemplates the prisoner , and is greatly struck by his appearance ...
... Theban women is soon gratified . Bac- chus , in a comely human form , is brought manacled before him . The king , thinking that now he cannot escape , leisurely contemplates the prisoner , and is greatly struck by his appearance ...
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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...