SophoclesW. Blackwood, 1871 - 181 páginas |
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... audience , with the joyous instincts of children - ever ready to " make believe " -gave them- selves up to all the illusions of the scene and story , delighting , and freely expressing their delight , in the picturesque and ever ...
... audience , with the joyous instincts of children - ever ready to " make believe " -gave them- selves up to all the illusions of the scene and story , delighting , and freely expressing their delight , in the picturesque and ever ...
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... audience . And if this resemblance is apparent now , how much stronger must it have been in the middle ages , when the Bible was a sealed book to the poorer classes , while the Passion- Play embodied for them to the life the personages ...
... audience . And if this resemblance is apparent now , how much stronger must it have been in the middle ages , when the Bible was a sealed book to the poorer classes , while the Passion- Play embodied for them to the life the personages ...
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... audience in the theatre , where the masks of perfect beauty , the grace- ful robes , and the majestic stature of the actors gave a solemn and almost unearthly character to the scene . Though Sophocles had a weak voice , he was himself a ...
... audience in the theatre , where the masks of perfect beauty , the grace- ful robes , and the majestic stature of the actors gave a solemn and almost unearthly character to the scene . Though Sophocles had a weak voice , he was himself a ...
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... audience , who knew the story well , no suspense could have been so agonising as to watch the misguided king rushing headlong to his doom - to see him weav- ing himself the fatal chain of evidence which was to convict him of murder and ...
... audience , who knew the story well , no suspense could have been so agonising as to watch the misguided king rushing headlong to his doom - to see him weav- ing himself the fatal chain of evidence which was to convict him of murder and ...
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... audience who had been in Athens during the Great Plague could realise the description -was " full of the dead and dying . " It was to no purpose that unceasing prayers were offered , and that incense steamed upon the altars . The gods ...
... audience who had been in Athens during the Great Plague could realise the description -was " full of the dead and dying . " It was to no purpose that unceasing prayers were offered , and that incense steamed upon the altars . The gods ...
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A. C. vol Achilles Ægisthus Æneid Ajax Antigone Athenian Athens 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...