Euripides, Edição 1William Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... character of the audience . Attica was a land favorable to varieties of labour and cultivation . At the present moment its light and dry soil produces little corn ; but want of capital and industry , not the soil , is to blame . Cereals ...
... character of the audience . Attica was a land favorable to varieties of labour and cultivation . At the present moment its light and dry soil produces little corn ; but want of capital and industry , not the soil , is to blame . Cereals ...
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... character of the Athenians , even if the pestilence had not sapped the foundations of morals by loosening domestic ties , by rendering the sick and even the strong reckless of the morrow , and thousands at once irreligious and super ...
... character of the Athenians , even if the pestilence had not sapped the foundations of morals by loosening domestic ties , by rendering the sick and even the strong reckless of the morrow , and thousands at once irreligious and super ...
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... character , and with it also the spirit , and in a measure the form , of the national drama . " It was a period of great intellectual activity ; and the simple course of education under + which the conquerors of Salamis and Marathon had ...
... character , and with it also the spirit , and in a measure the form , of the national drama . " It was a period of great intellectual activity ; and the simple course of education under + which the conquerors of Salamis and Marathon had ...
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... characters his plea that in the end they were all well punished for their sins . † Even his constant applauder from the benches , Socrates , had , it is said , once to implore him to cut out from a play certain offensive lines ; and a ...
... characters his plea that in the end they were all well punished for their sins . † Even his constant applauder from the benches , Socrates , had , it is said , once to implore him to cut out from a play certain offensive lines ; and a ...
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... character of Euripides may be inferred from his writings , the most pathetic of Greek tragic poets - he who sympathised with the slave , he who so tenderly depicted women - wept at such moments with those who were weeping before him ...
... character of Euripides may be inferred from his writings , the most pathetic of Greek tragic poets - he who sympathised with the slave , he who so tenderly depicted women - wept at such moments with those who were weeping before him ...
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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...