The tragedies of Sophocles, tr. into Engl. verse. By T. Dale1824 |
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... behold the rude and shapeless materials , passing through successive stages of improvement , till , like the rough marble under the hands of the experi- enced sculptor , they are polished into beauty and moulded into symmetry ; -is one ...
... behold the rude and shapeless materials , passing through successive stages of improvement , till , like the rough marble under the hands of the experi- enced sculptor , they are polished into beauty and moulded into symmetry ; -is one ...
Pagina 14
... behold a sight like this unmoved . Pr . O Edipus , imperial lord of Thebes ! Thou seest our sad estate , and how we sit 2 Before thine altars ; some , whose callow wings Refuse a lengthened flight ; -some , bowed with age , flight ...
... behold a sight like this unmoved . Pr . O Edipus , imperial lord of Thebes ! Thou seest our sad estate , and how we sit 2 Before thine altars ; some , whose callow wings Refuse a lengthened flight ; -some , bowed with age , flight ...
Pagina 56
... behold thee . Ed . I fear the prophet saw , alas ! too clearly . One question more , and all will be disclosed . Jo . I tremble - but will truly tell thee all . Ed . Went the King private , or with many guards Encompassed , as became ...
... behold thee . Ed . I fear the prophet saw , alas ! too clearly . One question more , and all will be disclosed . Jo . I tremble - but will truly tell thee all . Ed . Went the King private , or with many guards Encompassed , as became ...
Pagina 57
... behold the city . Such charge I gave assenting ; though a slave , Hé well deserved a richer recompense . Ed . How can we bid his instant presence hither ? Jo . Soon shall he come . Yet wherefore seek'st thou this ? Ed . I tremble , Lady ...
... behold the city . Such charge I gave assenting ; though a slave , Hé well deserved a richer recompense . Ed . How can we bid his instant presence hither ? Jo . Soon shall he come . Yet wherefore seek'st thou this ? Ed . I tremble , Lady ...
Pagina 60
... behold My best - loved friends , or tread my natal earth , Or else am doomed , in most unnatural ties , To wed my mother , and my father slay , Good Polybus , who gave me life and nurture , Would he not rightly judge who deemed these ...
... behold My best - loved friends , or tread my natal earth , Or else am doomed , in most unnatural ties , To wed my mother , and my father slay , Good Polybus , who gave me life and nurture , Would he not rightly judge who deemed these ...
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Ægisthus Æschylus Ajax ANTIGONE ANTISTROPHE arms art thou Atreus aught bear behold blood Cambridge canst charge CHORUS Chry CHRYSOTHEMIS Clytemnestra Creon curse dare dark daughter dead death deed deem DEIANIRA doom dost thou doth dread e'en Edipus Elec Electra Euripides Eurytus fate father fear friends Gods guilty hand hapless hast thou hate hath hear Heaven hence Herc hither honour ills ISMENE Jocasta Jove King know'st Laius Lord mayst misery monarch mortal mother murderer ne'er Neop NEOPTOLEMUS never nought o'er Orestes pangs Philoctetes pity Polybus Polynices prayer reverence shalt shame sire Sophocles sorrow soul speak stranger STROPHE tale TECMESSA tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou wilt thy words thyself TIRESIAS toil tomb Ulys Ulysses unhappy vengeance wherefore wild wilt thou woes wouldst thou wrath wretch
Pasaje populare
Pagina 251 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Pagina 371 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Pagina 213 - Ille dapes laudet mensae brevis, ille salubrem Justitiam legesque et apertis otia portis ; Ille tegat commissa deosque precetur et oret, *» Ut redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis.
Pagina 117 - Sepv&v eSpav teal %ev6<rracnv, 90), amid thunderings, lightnings, and earthquakes, as signs from heaven (a-rjAs the company of aged men draw near, who constitute the chorus, Oedipus screens himself in the thickest of the grove ; and they, as they search for him, sing with trembling voice...
Pagina 243 - Concede that name to hers, if from this crime She shall escape unpunished. Though she spring From our own sister, she shall not evade A shameful death. Ant. And welcome! Whence could I Obtain a holier praise than by committing My brother to the tomb ? These, too, I know Would all approve the action, but that fear Curbs their free thoughts to base and servile silence ; But 'tis the noble privilege of tyrants To say and do whate'er their lordly will, Their only law, may prompt. Cr. Of all the Thebans...
Pagina 178 - Who can think one thing, and another tell, My soul detests him as the gates of hell : — siitog that is, I hate him as death, or I hate him mortally.
Pagina 249 - Labdacus! arising from the dead With fresh despair ; nor sires from sons efface The curse some angry power hath rivetted For ever on thy destined line! Once more a cheering radiance seemed to shine O'er the last relic of thy name ;— This, too, the Powers of Darkness claim, Cut off by Hell's keen scythe, combined With haughty words unwise, and frenzy of the mind.
Pagina 81 - I wilt thou not be silent? (Ed. Reprove him not, old man, for thine own words, Far more than his, demand a stern reprover. Herd. I did : — Oh, had that moment been my last! (Ed. This shall be, if thou wilt not speak the truth. Herd. And if I speak it, I am trebly lost. (Ed. This man, it seems, still struggles to elude us. ' Herd. No, I confessed long since I gave the child. (Ed. And whence received ? thine own, or from another ? Herd. No, not mine own ; I from another's hand Bare him. (Ed. And...
Pagina 69 - ... and gone. (Ed. Died he by treason, or the chance of sickness? Cor. Slight ills dismiss the aged to their rest. (Ed. Then by disease, it seems, the monarch died. Cor. And bowed beneath a withering weight of years. (Ed. Ha ! is it thus ? Then, lady, who would heed The Pythian shrine oracular, or birds Clanging in air, by whose vain auspices I was fore-doomed the murderer of my father? In the still silence of the tomb he sleeps. While I am here — the fatal sword untouched, Unless he languished...
Pagina 241 - I perish ere th' allotted term, I deem that death a blessing. Who that lives, Like me, encompassed by unnumbered ills, But would account it blessedness to die ? If then I meet the doom thy laws assign, It nothing grieves me. Had I left my brother, From...