The Tragedies of SophoclesHarper & brothers, publishers, 1878 - 339 pages |
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Achilles Ægisthus 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 Hermann hither honor Ismene Jocasta Jove king knowest Laïus land least look means MESS mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never Orestes passage perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices present quæ quod 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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Page 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...
Page 250 - 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 118 - 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...
Page 187 - And he sent her away for two months : and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 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.
Page 112 - Dixerat. Ille Patris magni parere parabat imperio : et primum pedibus talaria nectit aurea, quae sublimem alis sive aequora supra 240 seu terram rapido pariter cum flamine portant.
Page 92 - ... when that fate hath appeared without nuptial hymn, without lyre, or dance, and death to close the scene. Not to have been born at all is superior to every view of the question; and this when one may have seen the light, to return thence whence he came as quickly as possible, is far the next best.