Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with NotesTalboys, 1833 |
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Pàgina 4
... heaven may reveal . PR . Nay , both thou hast well said , and these too just now signify to me that Creon is walking towards us . ED . Hear , king Apollo , for O that he may have come with some saviour fortune at least , even as he is ...
... heaven may reveal . PR . Nay , both thou hast well said , and these too just now signify to me that Creon is walking towards us . ED . Hear , king Apollo , for O that he may have come with some saviour fortune at least , even as he is ...
Pàgina 8
... heaven's aid pros- perous or undone . PR . My sons , let us arise ; since even for the sake of those things our prince of himself announces , came we hither . But may Phoebus , who has sent us these divinations , come with them both our ...
... heaven's aid pros- perous or undone . PR . My sons , let us arise ; since even for the sake of those things our prince of himself announces , came we hither . But may Phoebus , who has sent us these divinations , come with them both our ...
Pàgina 14
... heaven , and those that tread our earth ; with what a disease our city is familiar , even though thou seest not , thou must still be sensible whereof we discover thee , O king , the only protector and deliverer . For Phoebus , although ...
... heaven , and those that tread our earth ; with what a disease our city is familiar , even though thou seest not , thou must still be sensible whereof we discover thee , O king , the only protector and deliverer . For Phoebus , although ...
Pàgina 25
... heaven's name , what cowardice or idiocy having re- marked in me hast thou plotted to do this ? Was it that I should not detect this work of thine , creeping on me by stealth , and when I had learnt should not pro- tect myself against ...
... heaven's name , what cowardice or idiocy having re- marked in me hast thou plotted to do this ? Was it that I should not detect this work of thine , creeping on me by stealth , and when I had learnt should not pro- tect myself against ...
Pàgina 38
... heaven , see this day , but may I be gone from among mankind into darkness ere that I view such a taint of misery come upon me . CH . To us , O king , these tidings are alarming : until however thou hast ascertained more from the eyewit ...
... heaven , see this day , but may I be gone from among mankind into darkness ere that I view such a taint of misery come upon me . CH . To us , O king , these tidings are alarming : until however thou hast ascertained more from the eyewit ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Achilles Ægisthus Æschylus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antigone art thou Atridæ aught bear behold Brunck child Chorus Clytemnestra Creon daughter dead death deed Deianira didst dost thou dreadful earth Edipus Electra Euripides Eurytus evil eyes fate father fear friends gods Greeks hand hast thou hath hear heard heaven Hercules Herm Hermann hither honour Ismene Jove king knowest Laïus lament land least lest look MESS misery mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never oh father Orestes pain Pelops perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices present quod sayest thou scholiast Sophocles sorrow speak stranger suffer sure Tecmessa tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself tomb translates Troy Ulysses unhappy utter virgins wert Wherefore wilt thou wish woman words wouldst wretched καὶ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 68 - 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...
Pàgina 371 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Pàgina 442 - 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...
Pàgina 347 - There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
Pàgina 257 - 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.
Pàgina 359 - 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...
Pàgina 158 - 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.
Pàgina 209 - 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.
Pàgina 163 - Argos' fruitful shore, There shalt thou live his son, his honours share, And with Orestes' self divide his care. Yet more : three daughters in his court are bred, And each well worthy of a royal bed ; Laodice and Iphigenia fair, And bright Chrysothemis with golden hair; Her...
Pàgina 382 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!