Euripides, Edição 1William Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... Achæan , faded before the bright and picturesque glories of the hour . In his time the boundaries of the Grecian world were enlarged . Strangers , attracted to the new centre of Hellas by business or pleasure , now flocked to Athens ...
... Achæan , faded before the bright and picturesque glories of the hour . In his time the boundaries of the Grecian world were enlarged . Strangers , attracted to the new centre of Hellas by business or pleasure , now flocked to Athens ...
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... Achæan legends : the gods of the commonwealth , although it laughed heartily at them when travestied by the comic poets , still were held to be the rightful tenants of Olympus ; whereas the Euripidean deities were either ordinary men ...
... Achæan legends : the gods of the commonwealth , although it laughed heartily at them when travestied by the comic poets , still were held to be the rightful tenants of Olympus ; whereas the Euripidean deities were either ordinary men ...
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... Achæan ; Themistocles , far more than Aristides , that of an Athenian Greek . Euripides , who represents men as they are , and not as they ought to be , did not disdain to employ in his plays this common feature of his age and nation ...
... Achæan ; Themistocles , far more than Aristides , that of an Athenian Greek . Euripides , who represents men as they are , and not as they ought to be , did not disdain to employ in his plays this common feature of his age and nation ...
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... Achæan host - a Greek Bayard , " sans peur et sans reproche " -is a modest , nay , even a shy stripling , blushing like a girl when he comes suddenly into the presence of his destined bride and her mother : not easily moved , yet ...
... Achæan host - a Greek Bayard , " sans peur et sans reproche " -is a modest , nay , even a shy stripling , blushing like a girl when he comes suddenly into the presence of his destined bride and her mother : not easily moved , yet ...
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... Achæan chieftains , exhibits a master's hand . The servant can point out to his young mistress the leaders of the Argives , and describe the blazonry of their shields , because he has been in their camp , when he took to Polynices the ...
... Achæan chieftains , exhibits a master's hand . The servant can point out to his young mistress the leaders of the Argives , and describe the blazonry of their shields , because he has been in their camp , when he took to Polynices the ...
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A. C. vol Achæan Achilles Admetus Agamemnon Alcestis altar 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 Orestes passed Pella Pentheus perhaps Pericles Phædra philosopher Phoenician Women pides play poet Polyphemus Pylades Queen robe satyric says scene 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...