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Pagina ix
... mind art had made nature a subject of contempla- tion , philosophy had associated nature with nature's causes , and religion had interwoven place with thought , and sancti- fied each village , stream , or grove , with the remembrance of ...
... mind art had made nature a subject of contempla- tion , philosophy had associated nature with nature's causes , and religion had interwoven place with thought , and sancti- fied each village , stream , or grove , with the remembrance of ...
Pagina xii
... mind of the king , and he timorously obeys the advice of the chorus , and hearkens to those whom he had spurned with threats . The character of Hæmon seems to have been framed to please the popular ear . He is a true Athenian pleader ...
... mind of the king , and he timorously obeys the advice of the chorus , and hearkens to those whom he had spurned with threats . The character of Hæmon seems to have been framed to please the popular ear . He is a true Athenian pleader ...
Pagina xiii
... mind of Antigone glows with youthful impulse , chastened by matured principle , while Electra exhibits little else than the accumulated bitter- ness of continued years of misfortune . Even her mournings at the supposed death of Orestes ...
... mind of Antigone glows with youthful impulse , chastened by matured principle , while Electra exhibits little else than the accumulated bitter- ness of continued years of misfortune . Even her mournings at the supposed death of Orestes ...
Pagina xiv
... mind . Like Cato , he almost reasons himself into suicide , but , unlike him , he has no sublime hopes of futurity to gladden the act . The tender and soothing character of Tecmessa fails to soften his stern determination , but the ...
... mind . Like Cato , he almost reasons himself into suicide , but , unlike him , he has no sublime hopes of futurity to gladden the act . The tender and soothing character of Tecmessa fails to soften his stern determination , but the ...
Pagina xv
... mind rises superior ; and , as Winkelmann observes , Philoctetes , like Laocoon , " suffers with the sup- pressed agony of an heroic soul never altogether overcome by his pain1 . " In perfect simplicity and clear dramatic construction ...
... mind rises superior ; and , as Winkelmann observes , Philoctetes , like Laocoon , " suffers with the sup- pressed agony of an heroic soul never altogether overcome by his pain1 . " In perfect simplicity and clear dramatic construction ...
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Achilles Ægisthus Æschylus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antigone art thou Atridæ aught bear behold Brunck child Chorus Clytemnestra Creon curses daughter dead death deed Deianira didst Dindorf dost thou dreadful earth Edipus Electra Euboea Euripides Eurytus evil eyes fate father fear friends gods Greeks hand hast thou hath hear heard heaven Hercules Herm Hermann hither honour Ismene Jocasta Jove king knowest Laïus land least look means misery mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never Orestes passage perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices present quæ sayest thou scholiast Sophocles speak stranger suffer surely Tecmessa tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself Tiresias tomb translation Troy Ulysses unhappy utter Wherefore wilt thou wish words wretched Wunder δὲ καὶ τῶν
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Pagina 114 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 186 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Pagina 51 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Pagina 319 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Pagina 181 - 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 72 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Pagina 250 - Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest ; evils, that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil : What have you lost by losing of this day ? Lew.
Pagina 151 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 259 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Pagina 271 - And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.