Euripides, Edição 1William Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... Theseus had his royal predecessors . And if the Athenian studied the national chronicles , or listened by the winter fireside to the stories of old times , he did not blush for his progenitors . They had ever been redressers of wrongs ...
... Theseus had his royal predecessors . And if the Athenian studied the national chronicles , or listened by the winter fireside to the stories of old times , he did not blush for his progenitors . They had ever been redressers of wrongs ...
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... Theseus and Helen , whom her mother , through fear of Menelaus , did not dare to own . In the Iliad , that common source of the stage - poets when they dealt with the tale of Troy , nothing is said about substitute or sacrifice , nor ...
... Theseus and Helen , whom her mother , through fear of Menelaus , did not dare to own . In the Iliad , that common source of the stage - poets when they dealt with the tale of Troy , nothing is said about substitute or sacrifice , nor ...
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... Theseus to have incurred the heavy displeasure of one goddess through his earnest devotion to another . The life - battle he has to fight is indeed really a contest between two rival divinities ; and were second titles possible in Greek ...
... Theseus to have incurred the heavy displeasure of one goddess through his earnest devotion to another . The life - battle he has to fight is indeed really a contest between two rival divinities ; and were second titles possible in Greek ...
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... Theseus returns to Troezen , with the intention , as Phædra and her nurse believe , of disclosing to his father his wife's infidelity . Overwhelmed by shame and despair , Phædra hangs herself , but suspends from her neck a letter in ...
... Theseus returns to Troezen , with the intention , as Phædra and her nurse believe , of disclosing to his father his wife's infidelity . Overwhelmed by shame and despair , Phædra hangs herself , but suspends from her neck a letter in ...
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... Theseus , still crediting Phædra's false letter , rejoices in his son's fate , although he alone believes him guilty . The messenger , indeed , bluntly tells the king that he is deceived : - - " Yet to one thing I never will give ...
... Theseus , still crediting Phædra's false letter , rejoices in his son's fate , although he alone believes him guilty . The messenger , indeed , bluntly tells the king that he is deceived : - - " Yet to one thing I never will give ...
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A. C. vol Achæan Achilles Admetus Agamemnon 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 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 nurse Orestes passed Pella Pentheus perhaps Pericles Phædra philosopher Phoenician Women 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 85 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees: Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
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 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 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 - 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 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 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...
Página 122 - Onward the tiger and the leopard pants, With Asian elephants: Onward these myriads — with song and dance, With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians...