The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with NotesW. Jackson, 1837 - 307 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... deed or word I might deliver this my city . And the day being already correspondent by calculation to his time , pains me for his fate [ as to how he fares ] , since beyond reasonable expectation he is away longer than a due period ...
... deed or word I might deliver this my city . And the day being already correspondent by calculation to his time , pains me for his fate [ as to how he fares ] , since beyond reasonable expectation he is away longer than a due period ...
Pàgina 10
... deed . ED . Thou hast justly spoken . But to compel gods to that which they shall not have pleased to do , could no man alive have power . CH . By permission , I would suggest the second step after this which occurs to my thought . ED ...
... deed . ED . Thou hast justly spoken . But to compel gods to that which they shall not have pleased to do , could no man alive have power . CH . By permission , I would suggest the second step after this which occurs to my thought . ED ...
Pàgina 11
... deed , neither will a word overawe . CH . Yet is there who shall expose him , for those yonder are slow conducting hither the heavenly seer ; in whom alone of men is the truth innate . ED . Tiresias , thou who dost contemplate all ...
... deed , neither will a word overawe . CH . Yet is there who shall expose him , for those yonder are slow conducting hither the heavenly seer ; in whom alone of men is the truth innate . ED . Tiresias , thou who dost contemplate all ...
Pàgina 13
... deed , and to have done it , in all but killing him with thine hands ; nay , had thou possessed sight , even this deed its very self had I asserted to be thine alone . TIR . Is it even so ? —I charge thee to abide by the procla- mation ...
... deed , and to have done it , in all but killing him with thine hands ; nay , had thou possessed sight , even this deed its very self had I asserted to be thine alone . TIR . Is it even so ? —I charge thee to abide by the procla- mation ...
Pàgina 17
... deed tending to his injury , truly I have no hankering after a long - enduring life while I undergo this re- port . For the penalty of this calumny upon me tends to no simple evil , but to one of the first magnitude , if I am henceforth ...
... deed tending to his injury , truly I have no hankering after a long - enduring life while I undergo this re- port . For the penalty of this calumny upon me tends to no simple evil , but to one of the first magnitude , if I am henceforth ...
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Achilles Ægisthus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antigone Apollo art thou Atridæ aught bear behold Brunck child Chorus Clytemnestra Creon curses daughter dead death deed Deianira didst dost thou dreadful earth Edipus Electra Euripides Eurytus evil eyes fate fear friends gods Greeks hand hast thou hateful hath hear heard heaven Hercules Hermann hither honour Ismene Jove king knowest Laïus lament land least lest look means MESS misery mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never oh father Orestes pain perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices possess present quod sayest thou scholiast Sophocles speak stranger suffer sure Tecmessa tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself Tiresias tomb translates Troy Ulysses unhappy utter virgins wert Wherefore wilt thou wish woman words wouldst wretched καὶ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 169 - 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 44 - 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 245 - 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 292 - 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 237 - 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 275 - Awed by no shame, by no respect controll'd, In scandal busy, in reproaches bold: With witty malice studious to defame, Scorn all his joy, and laughter all his aim:— But chief he gloried with licentious style To lash the great, and monarchs to revile. His figure such as might his soul proclaim; One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame: His mountain shoulders half his breast o'erspread, Thin hairs bestrew'd his long misshapen head.
Pàgina 250 - What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ! Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Pàgina 169 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Pàgina 134 - 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 67 - Thou hast come, O stranger, to the seats of this land, renowned for the steed ; to seats the fairest on earth, the chalky Colonus ; where the vocal nightingale, chief abounding, trills her plaintive note in the green vales...