EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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Página 46
... murder Archelaus . * At the Macedonian court Euripides was not the only Athenian guest . His friend Agathon , flying perhaps from duns , critics , or public informers , found a royal city a pleasanter residence than a democratic one ...
... murder Archelaus . * At the Macedonian court Euripides was not the only Athenian guest . His friend Agathon , flying perhaps from duns , critics , or public informers , found a royal city a pleasanter residence than a democratic one ...
Página 99
... murdered sons . Jason . Undo the bolt on the instant , servants there Loose the clamps , that I may see my grief and bane , May see them dead , and guerdon her with death . " 66 ; He sees them dead , indeed , but may " not kiss the dear ...
... murdered sons . Jason . Undo the bolt on the instant , servants there Loose the clamps , that I may see my grief and bane , May see them dead , and guerdon her with death . " 66 ; He sees them dead , indeed , but may " not kiss the dear ...
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... great events that have taken place since her rescue . She knows not that Troy has fal- len ; that her father has been murdered and avenged ; A. C. vol . xii . H " " that her brother Orestes and her sister Electra THE TWO IPHIGENIAS . 113.
... great events that have taken place since her rescue . She knows not that Troy has fal- len ; that her father has been murdered and avenged ; A. C. vol . xii . H " " that her brother Orestes and her sister Electra THE TWO IPHIGENIAS . 113.
Página 118
... shore . A guard must attend you , for they are stal- wart knaves ; one of them has murdered his mother , and the other prompted and abetted him in that foul crime . " For a while the soldiers are persuaded 118 EURIPIDES .
... shore . A guard must attend you , for they are stal- wart knaves ; one of them has murdered his mother , and the other prompted and abetted him in that foul crime . " For a while the soldiers are persuaded 118 EURIPIDES .
Página 145
... murder to avenge her imagined wrongs - devises a plot that would have been quite successful had not Apollo been on the watch . Creusa is in possession of a deadly poison- " two drops of blood that from the Gorgon fell " -given to her ...
... murder to avenge her imagined wrongs - devises a plot that would have been quite successful had not Apollo been on the watch . Creusa is in possession of a deadly poison- " two drops of blood that from the Gorgon fell " -given to her ...
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Achilles Adrastus affecting Alcestis ancient Apollo appears Aristophanes Athenian Athens audience bear beautiful better borne bring brother brought cause character Chorus comes daughter dead death deities divine drama English Eschylus Eteocles Euripides eyes faith fate father fear feelings give goddess gods Greece Greek hand head heart Helen Hercules human husband Iphigenia Jocasta king land least less lived look means Medea mind mortal mother nature never once opinions Orestes passed perhaps Persian person philosopher play poet present probably readers reason remains says scene servant shows slave song sons Sophocles spectators stage story strange stranger taken tears tells temple theatre Thebes thee things thou thought Tiresias touch tragedy Troy Ulysses wife women writings 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...