EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... stories of old times , he did not blush for his progenitors . They had ever been redressers of wrongs , harbourers of the exile , hospitable to the stranger ; and their virtues supplied Euripides with themes for several of his plays ...
... stories of old times , he did not blush for his progenitors . They had ever been redressers of wrongs , harbourers of the exile , hospitable to the stranger ; and their virtues supplied Euripides with themes for several of his plays ...
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... story of his own deliverance from the dread or oppression of the great king . Even the tragi - comedy of Euripides might be more agreeable to him than the sombre gran- deur of Eschylus , or the serene and perfect art of Sophocles . But ...
... story of his own deliverance from the dread or oppression of the great king . Even the tragi - comedy of Euripides might be more agreeable to him than the sombre gran- deur of Eschylus , or the serene and perfect art of Sophocles . But ...
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... story : according to it , Clito was a person of quality , " and Mnesarchus not a gentleman but a shopkeeper , or at least " in business . " vending her own wares was an irresistible temptation to comic 26 EURIPIDES .
... story : according to it , Clito was a person of quality , " and Mnesarchus not a gentleman but a shopkeeper , or at least " in business . " vending her own wares was an irresistible temptation to comic 26 EURIPIDES .
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... story preserved by a Roman anecdotist , Euripides pursued his studies in a grim and gloomy fashion . One Philochorus professed to have seen a " grotto shagged with horrid thorn , " † in which he composed his tragedies . He is said never ...
... story preserved by a Roman anecdotist , Euripides pursued his studies in a grim and gloomy fashion . One Philochorus professed to have seen a " grotto shagged with horrid thorn , " † in which he composed his tragedies . He is said never ...
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... story be true that Alcibiades and his associates marred the first and hindered the second representation of " The Clouds , " the baffled and irritated satirist may have suspected Euripides of having a hand in his failure , and for that ...
... story be true that Alcibiades and his associates marred the first and hindered the second representation of " The Clouds , " the baffled and irritated satirist may have suspected Euripides of having a hand in his failure , and for that ...
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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...