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Pagina xi
... honour- able appellation of Father of the Drama . ' 6 This great man was born of an illustrious family , in or about the sixty - third Olympiad , 528 B.C. We are not informed of the circum- stances that first directed his attention to ...
... honour- able appellation of Father of the Drama . ' 6 This great man was born of an illustrious family , in or about the sixty - third Olympiad , 528 B.C. We are not informed of the circum- stances that first directed his attention to ...
Pagina 47
... for empty honour . All now is pleasure ; all men court me now ; They who desire thy favour seek my aid To advocate their cause ; through me they gain The boon solicited . And should I then Renounce such EDIPUS TYRANNUS . 47.
... for empty honour . All now is pleasure ; all men court me now ; They who desire thy favour seek my aid To advocate their cause ; through me they gain The boon solicited . And should I then Renounce such EDIPUS TYRANNUS . 47.
Pagina 48
... honour of the just , One day suffices to detect a traitor . Ch . Well hath he said , O King , to one forewarned Of falling ; quick resolves are rarely safe . Ed . When one is quick to frame insidious plots , I too have need of quickness ...
... honour of the just , One day suffices to detect a traitor . Ch . Well hath he said , O King , to one forewarned Of falling ; quick resolves are rarely safe . Ed . When one is quick to frame insidious plots , I too have need of quickness ...
Pagina 166
Sophocles. Oh lost to justice ! thou hast dared to speak While Honour warned to silence ; and to charge Me in this presence with calumnious blame ; Yet hast thou deemed it worthy on this state , Renowned Athens , and her generous King ...
Sophocles. Oh lost to justice ! thou hast dared to speak While Honour warned to silence ; and to charge Me in this presence with calumnious blame ; Yet hast thou deemed it worthy on this state , Renowned Athens , and her generous King ...
Pagina 173
... honour , but from manly deeds . I prove it thus : in all our promise pledged , That pledge hath been redeemed ; I here restore Thy daughters , living , from his threats unharmed . And why should I recount , in vaunting words , How ...
... honour , but from manly deeds . I prove it thus : in all our promise pledged , That pledge hath been redeemed ; I here restore Thy daughters , living , from his threats unharmed . And why should I recount , in vaunting words , How ...
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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...