SophoclesW. Blackwood, 1871 - 181 páginas |
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... Thebes , thus gracefully translated by Professor Plumptre : - " Creep gently , ivy , ever gently creep , Where Sophocles sleeps on in calm repose ; Thy pale green tresses o'er the marble sweep , While all around shall bloom the purpling ...
... Thebes , thus gracefully translated by Professor Plumptre : - " Creep gently , ivy , ever gently creep , Where Sophocles sleeps on in calm repose ; Thy pale green tresses o'er the marble sweep , While all around shall bloom the purpling ...
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... Thebes , ' as he feels the blast of his father's curse which is wafting him to Hades : - 66 Quoi ! la nécessité des vertus et des vices D'un astre imperieux doit suivre les caprices , Et Delphes malgrè nous conduit nos actions Au plus ...
... Thebes , ' as he feels the blast of his father's curse which is wafting him to Hades : - 66 Quoi ! la nécessité des vertus et des vices D'un astre imperieux doit suivre les caprices , Et Delphes malgrè nous conduit nos actions Au plus ...
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... Thebes , took for his wife Jocasta , " daughter of the wise Menaceus , " but she bore him no children . Then in his distress he asked help of the god of Delphi ; and the god declared that a son should be born to him , but by the hands ...
... Thebes , took for his wife Jocasta , " daughter of the wise Menaceus , " but she bore him no children . Then in his distress he asked help of the god of Delphi ; and the god declared that a son should be born to him , but by the hands ...
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... Thebes . The Sphinx ( as this monster was called ) proposed a riddle which no Theban could solve ; and the life of a citizen was the penalty for every failure . So terrible was the visitation , that Creon , in despair , offered the ...
... Thebes . The Sphinx ( as this monster was called ) proposed a riddle which no Theban could solve ; and the life of a citizen was the penalty for every failure . So terrible was the visitation , that Creon , in despair , offered the ...
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... Thebes . Corneille makes him tell his own story - how on his arrival at the foot of the fatal rock he sees the ground covered with the mangled limbs of former unlucky interpreters - how , in their despair , the perishing citizens make ...
... Thebes . Corneille makes him tell his own story - how on his arrival at the foot of the fatal rock he sees the ground covered with the mangled limbs of former unlucky interpreters - how , in their despair , the perishing citizens make ...
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A. C. vol Achilles Ægisthus Ajax Antigone Athenian Athens Atreus audience bear bids bitter blood body bring brother child Chorus Chrysothemis Clytemnestra Colonus Creon Crown 8vo curse daughter dead death deed Dejanira doom drama earth Edipus Edition Electra enters Eschylus Eteocles evil fate father friends GEOLOGY glory goddess gods grave Greek hand hast hath hear heart heaven Hercules hero honour Hyllus Iliad insult Ismene Jocasta Jove king Laius Lemnos Lichas living LL.D maiden messenger misery mortal murderer Neop Neoptolemus never noble o'er once Orestes palace passion Phil Philoctetes PHYSICAL pity play poet Polybus Polynices prayer prince rumour sacred Salamis says scene sister slain sleep sons Sophocles sorrow soul spirit stage stranger sufferer suppliant sword tale Tecmessa Teiresias tells Teucer TEXT-BOOK Theban Thebes thee Theseus thine thou tomb tragedy Troy Ulysses utters vengeance wild words wrath ZOOLOGY
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Página 137 - ... wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw...
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Página 48 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Página 10 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...