SophoclesW. Blackwood, 1871 - 181 páginas |
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... turn by some younger candidate for fame , but never once degraded to the third place . So prolific was his genius , that he is said to have composed upwards of a hundred tragedies . Of these but seven are extant . He had inherited a ...
... turn by some younger candidate for fame , but never once degraded to the third place . So prolific was his genius , that he is said to have composed upwards of a hundred tragedies . Of these but seven are extant . He had inherited a ...
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... turn as the plague - stricken Athenians turned to Pericles - to him who seemed to be the favourite of fortune , to the prince whose sagacity had once rescued them from the talons of the Sphinx ; and in the opening scene of the play , a ...
... turn as the plague - stricken Athenians turned to Pericles - to him who seemed to be the favourite of fortune , to the prince whose sagacity had once rescued them from the talons of the Sphinx ; and in the opening scene of the play , a ...
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... turn roused to anger ; the fire kindles , and he speaks with his tongue . It is Nathan's denunciation of David : " Thou art the man . " Edipus is not only incredulous , but furious , to think that an augur can be at once so old and so ...
... turn roused to anger ; the fire kindles , and he speaks with his tongue . It is Nathan's denunciation of David : " Thou art the man . " Edipus is not only incredulous , but furious , to think that an augur can be at once so old and so ...
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... turn recounts his flight from Corinth , in dismay at the hideous destiny foretold to him by the Delphic god . He tells how on his journey he came to a place where three roads met ; how he had been pushed from the road by an old grey ...
... turn recounts his flight from Corinth , in dismay at the hideous destiny foretold to him by the Delphic god . He tells how on his journey he came to a place where three roads met ; how he had been pushed from the road by an old grey ...
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... turn had 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 ...
... turn had 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 ...
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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 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...