SophoclesW. Blackwood, 1871 - 181 páginas |
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... carried back by the poet to the same mythic period , with no pretence to historical date , to which Shakspeare carries us back in his kindred play of King Lear ' + -an age of giants , when men's passions were at blood - heat , when ...
... carried back by the poet to the same mythic period , with no pretence to historical date , to which Shakspeare carries us back in his kindred play of King Lear ' + -an age of giants , when men's passions were at blood - heat , when ...
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... carry with them a terrible significance- " And therefore will I strive my best for him , As for my father , and will go all lengths To seek and find the murderer ; and for me , If in my house , I knowing it , he dwells , May every curse ...
... carry with them a terrible significance- " And therefore will I strive my best for him , As for my father , and will go all lengths To seek and find the murderer ; and for me , If in my house , I knowing it , he dwells , May every curse ...
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... carried the child to Polybus . There is one question still to be answered - one link still requisite to complete the chain of circumstantial evidence : " Who was the mother , and from whom had the shepherd received the child ? " Jocasta ...
... carried the child to Polybus . There is one question still to be answered - one link still requisite to complete the chain of circumstantial evidence : " Who was the mother , and from whom had the shepherd received the child ? " Jocasta ...
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... carry off Edipus to Thebes , enters in person at the head of an armed force . As the Chorus shrink back from him in alarmed surprise , he deprecates their fears in a speech- masterly , whether we regard the purpose of the orator or the ...
... carry off Edipus to Thebes , enters in person at the head of an armed force . As the Chorus shrink back from him in alarmed surprise , he deprecates their fears in a speech- masterly , whether we regard the purpose of the orator or the ...
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... carry traces of the mortal wounds or mutilation which caused their death ; and so , in the Odyssey , we find them crowd- ing to drink the blood which , like an elixir of life , seems to reanimate their veins , and give them speech and ...
... carry traces of the mortal wounds or mutilation which caused their death ; and so , in the Odyssey , we find them crowd- ing to drink the blood which , like an elixir of life , seems to reanimate their veins , and give them speech and ...
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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...