EuripidesJ. B. Lippincott, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... tragic 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 ...
... tragic 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 ...
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... tragic poet no good with Aristophanes ; and if the 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 ...
... tragic poet no good with Aristophanes ; and if the 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 ...
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... tragic poet laboured under this serious disadvantage , that he could not bring his antagonist on the stage . Yet the most ardent admirer of Euripides is com- pelled to allow that this indefatigable writer of plays and laborious student ...
... tragic poet laboured under this serious disadvantage , that he could not bring his antagonist on the stage . Yet the most ardent admirer of Euripides is com- pelled to allow that this indefatigable writer of plays and laborious student ...
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... tragic poets - he who sympathised with the slave , he who so tenderly depicted women - wept at such moments with those who were weeping before him , and was cheered by these proofs that he had not written or lived in vain . The ...
... tragic poets - he who sympathised with the slave , he who so tenderly depicted women - wept at such moments with those who were weeping before him , and was cheered by these proofs that he had not written or lived in vain . The ...
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... tragic trilogy . But no reader of this domestic play , whether in the original or translation , will find mirth or satirical banter in it . The happy ending may entitle it to be regarded as a comedy in the modern sense of the term ...
... tragic trilogy . But no reader of this domestic play , whether in the original or translation , will find mirth or satirical banter in it . The happy ending may entitle it to be regarded as a comedy in the modern sense of the term ...
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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...