EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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Página 138
... Xuthus had done them good service ; his recompense for it was the hand of the Erectheid princess Creusa , and the issue of the marriage was Ion , from whom the Athenians claimed , remotely , to descend . But when , after the decline of ...
... Xuthus had done them good service ; his recompense for it was the hand of the Erectheid princess Creusa , and the issue of the marriage was Ion , from whom the Athenians claimed , remotely , to descend . But when , after the decline of ...
Página 140
... Xuthus is there to ask advice from the neigh- bouring oracle of Trophonius by what means Creusa and himself may cease to be childless . While he goes on his errand , his wife encounters Ion in the fore - court of the temple , and their ...
... Xuthus is there to ask advice from the neigh- bouring oracle of Trophonius by what means Creusa and himself may cease to be childless . While he goes on his errand , his wife encounters Ion in the fore - court of the temple , and their ...
Página 141
... Xuthus now returns from the Trophonian crypt with good news for his wife and himself . Trophonius , in- deed , being a very subordinate deity , " held it unmeet to forestall the answer of a superior one ; " " but , " says Xuthus ...
... Xuthus now returns from the Trophonian crypt with good news for his wife and himself . Trophonius , in- deed , being a very subordinate deity , " held it unmeet to forestall the answer of a superior one ; " " but , " says Xuthus ...
Página 142
... Xuthus reappears , with this command from the Pythoness : " The first male stranger whom you meet , address as your son . " Of course the stranger is Ion ; but being greeted with the words , " Health to my son ! " by one whom he has ...
... Xuthus reappears , with this command from the Pythoness : " The first male stranger whom you meet , address as your son . " Of course the stranger is Ion ; but being greeted with the words , " Health to my son ! " by one whom he has ...
Página 144
... Xuthus has the right to threaten , as well as the means to keep his promise . For one who has seen so much of the world , it argues much simplicity in Xuthus to have imagined that even the fear of death will insure silence in some ...
... Xuthus has the right to threaten , as well as the means to keep his promise . For one who has seen so much of the world , it argues much simplicity in Xuthus to have imagined that even the fear of death will insure silence in some ...
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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...