Euripides, Edição 1William Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 204 páginas |
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... altar of the goddess , to whom men of their race were the most acceptable of victims . But the end of her long exile and the hour assigned for her restoration to home and kindred were at hand . A Greek vessel arrives at this remote and ...
... altar of the goddess , to whom men of their race were the most acceptable of victims . But the end of her long exile and the hour assigned for her restoration to home and kindred were at hand . A Greek vessel arrives at this remote and ...
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... altar . And now Iphigenia proves that she is Greek to the core . She can plot craftily : she will even hazard the wrath of a deity by a timely fraud . King Thoas , little more than a simple country gentleman , dividing his time between ...
... altar . And now Iphigenia proves that she is Greek to the core . She can plot craftily : she will even hazard the wrath of a deity by a timely fraud . King Thoas , little more than a simple country gentleman , dividing his time between ...
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... altar of Demeter . A passage from " The Two Noble Kinsmen " of Fletcher explains far better than the prologue of the Greek tragedy does the errand of the Suppliants : - " We are six queens , whose sovereigns fell before The wrath of ...
... altar of Demeter . A passage from " The Two Noble Kinsmen " of Fletcher explains far better than the prologue of the Greek tragedy does the errand of the Suppliants : - " We are six queens , whose sovereigns fell before The wrath of ...
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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
Passagens conhecidas
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...