Euripides, Edição 1William Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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Página 99
... Creon , unscathed To cast me out of his realm . And now , If it so like thee , call me lioness , And Scylla , dweller on Tursenian plains ; For as right bade me , have I clutched thy heart . " The story of Medea , unconnected as it is ...
... Creon , unscathed To cast me out of his realm . And now , If it so like thee , call me lioness , And Scylla , dweller on Tursenian plains ; For as right bade me , have I clutched thy heart . " The story of Medea , unconnected as it is ...
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... Creon , Jocasta's brother , is a most inter- esting one . The prophet Tiresias has declared that Thebes must be taken by the Seven , unless this youth will die for the people . In deep distress Creon im- plores his son to quit this ...
... Creon , Jocasta's brother , is a most inter- esting one . The prophet Tiresias has declared that Thebes must be taken by the Seven , unless this youth will die for the people . In deep distress Creon im- plores his son to quit this ...
Página 163
... Creon , now become regent of Thebes , to perform the last functions for her dear Polynices . The tragedy concludes with her declaration that man may make cruel laws , and forbid the rites of sepulture , but she will obey a higher law ...
... Creon , now become regent of Thebes , to perform the last functions for her dear Polynices . The tragedy concludes with her declaration that man may make cruel laws , and forbid the rites of sepulture , but she will obey a higher law ...
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... Creon persists in deny- ing the rites of sepulture to the fallen Argive chief- tains . The commander of that disastrous expedition , Adrastus , now the sole survivor of the seven , hurries to Eleusis on the Athenian border , accompanied ...
... Creon persists in deny- ing the rites of sepulture to the fallen Argive chief- tains . The commander of that disastrous expedition , Adrastus , now the sole survivor of the seven , hurries to Eleusis on the Athenian border , accompanied ...
Página 165
... Creon to demand the bodies of the slain , a Theban messenger comes with a peremptory mandate from Creon that Adrastus and his companions be delivered up . It must be owned that , at this juncture , Theseus is rather a proser . Forget ...
... Creon to demand the bodies of the slain , a Theban messenger comes with a peremptory mandate from Creon that Adrastus and his companions be delivered up . It must be owned that , at this juncture , Theseus is rather a proser . Forget ...
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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...