EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... poets by the late Deans Milman and Alford . Where the trans- lated passages are not attributed to an author , they are taken from Potter , in the absence of better render- ings . He wishes also to commemorate his obligations to Mr F. A. ...
... poets by the late Deans Milman and Alford . Where the trans- lated passages are not attributed to an author , they are taken from Potter , in the absence of better render- ings . He wishes also to commemorate his obligations to Mr F. A. ...
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... poet , a new epoch begins for the estima- tion of him by classical as well as English readers . Mr Paley evidently regards Euripides in a very similar light to that taken of him by Ben Jonson - that " he is sometimes peccant , as he is ...
... poet , a new epoch begins for the estima- tion of him by classical as well as English readers . Mr Paley evidently regards Euripides in a very similar light to that taken of him by Ben Jonson - that " he is sometimes peccant , as he is ...
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... poets of all times and countries , no less than historians and philosophers , admit of being con- templated under a twofold aspect - literary and his- torical . Under the former , we may mark how they acted upon their age ; under the ...
... poets of all times and countries , no less than historians and philosophers , admit of being con- templated under a twofold aspect - literary and his- torical . Under the former , we may mark how they acted upon their age ; under the ...
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... poet , most susceptible , as his plays often show him to have been , of the arts allied to his own , beheld in all the freshness of their youth the Painted Porch , adorned by Micon , Polygnetus , and Pantanus , with cartoons of Athenian ...
... poet , most susceptible , as his plays often show him to have been , of the arts allied to his own , beheld in all the freshness of their youth the Painted Porch , adorned by Micon , Polygnetus , and Pantanus , with cartoons of Athenian ...
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... poet's life , and we come to a period when this scene of political , artistic , and social activity is at first clouded over , and in the end rent and dislimned . Among other effects of the Pelo- ponnesian war , one was , that a stop ...
... poet's life , and we come to a period when this scene of political , artistic , and social activity is at first clouded over , and in the end rent and dislimned . Among other effects of the Pelo- ponnesian war , one was , that a stop ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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...