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... blood - stain'd wave to rear Her head her opening buds unfruitful fall , : Scorch'd by the baneful blasts : her pastured herds Perish , her infants perish ere the birth . Incumbent o'er the town destructive hangs The fiery pestilence ...
... blood - stain'd wave to rear Her head her opening buds unfruitful fall , : Scorch'd by the baneful blasts : her pastured herds Perish , her infants perish ere the birth . Incumbent o'er the town destructive hangs The fiery pestilence ...
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... blood , Son of Menaceus , to the Pythian shrine Of Phoebus , to inquire what I must do To save this city . As I number back The days since past , I marvel ; for his stay Exceeds just expectation . When he comes , If I perform not what ...
... blood , Son of Menaceus , to the Pythian shrine Of Phoebus , to inquire what I must do To save this city . As I number back The days since past , I marvel ; for his stay Exceeds just expectation . When he comes , If I perform not what ...
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... blood Allied , what answer bring'st thou from the god ? CR . Of good I have to tell thee : all our ill May , if directed well , find happy end . CDIP . Relate his words distinctly ; for thy speech Nor gives me confidence , nor wakes my ...
... blood Allied , what answer bring'st thou from the god ? CR . Of good I have to tell thee : all our ill May , if directed well , find happy end . CDIP . Relate his words distinctly ; for thy speech Nor gives me confidence , nor wakes my ...
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... blood polluted , let him speak , And not conceal the murderer ; for from me Ample shall be his recompense , and thanks Added besides . But if ye will not speak , If fearing for himself , or for a friend , There be a man that disregards ...
... blood polluted , let him speak , And not conceal the murderer ; for from me Ample shall be his recompense , and thanks Added besides . But if ye will not speak , If fearing for himself , or for a friend , There be a man that disregards ...
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... blood Of one so noble , of a monarch slain . To trace this murderous deed my fortune now Assigns to me , for mine the regal pow'r Which once was his ; his bed , his wife is mine ; Our children too , but that the adverse gods Denied him ...
... blood Of one so noble , of a monarch slain . To trace this murderous deed my fortune now Assigns to me , for mine the regal pow'r Which once was his ; his bed , his wife is mine ; Our children too , but that the adverse gods Denied him ...
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Ægisthus Ajax ANTIGONE ANTIS Argive arms art thou Atreus aught bear behold beneath blood CDIP CEDIP CHOR CHORUS CHRY CLYT Creon daring daughters dead death deed DEIA DEIANIRA didst dipus dost thou dreadful e'en EDIP Edipus ELEC Electra Euripides Eurytus eyes fate fear friends glory gods Grecian grief hallow'd hand hast thou hated hath hear heart hence HERC hither honour HYLL ills illustrious ISMENE Jocasta Jove king know'st Laius LICH lord midst mind mortal mournful ne'er NEOP NEOPTOLEMUS never o'er ŒDIP Orestes PHIL Philoctetes pity Polybus Polynices pow'r rage realms reverence Sophocles soul speak stranger STRO TECM TECMESSA TEUC Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou may'st thou shalt thou wilt thought thy father thy words Tiresias toils tomb Troy ULYS Ulysses unhappy vengeance virgin voice whilst wilt thou wish woes wou'dst thou wretched
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Page 39 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 92 - Well, stranger, to these rural seats Thou comest, this region's blest retreats, Where white Colonus lifts his head, And glories in the bounding steed. Where sadly sweet the frequent nightingale Impassion'd pours her evening song, And charms with varied notes each verdant vale, The ivy's dark-green boughs among ; Or shelter'd 'midst the cluster'd vine, Which high above, to form a bow'r Safe from the sun or stormy show'r, Loves its thick branches to entwine ; Where frolic Bacchus always roves, And...
Page 231 - midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill: (Whose groves the Selli, race austere! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; And catch the fates, low-whispered in the breeze;) Hear, as of old! Thou gav'st, at Thetis' prayer, Glory to me, and to the Greeks despair.
Page 190 - Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an ideot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Page 92 - O'er the rich bosom of the ground, Quick spring the plants, the flow'rs around Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns ; And car-borne Venus guides her golden reins Strophe 2.
Page 126 - But in short space we stopp'd, we backwards turn'd Our eyes ; the man was no where to be found ; He was not ; but we saw the king alone ; He stood) and o'er his face his hands he spread Shading his eyes, as if with terror struck At something horrible to human sight. Thus long he stood not, but we saw him soon The Earth adoring, and Olympus high, Seat of th' immortal gods, with ardent pray'r.
Page 307 - As, wearied with the tossing of the waves, They saw me sleeping on the shore, beneath This rock's rude covering, with malignant joy They left me, and sail'd hence. Think from that sleep, my son, how I awoke, When they were gone ! Think on my tears, my groans. — Such ills lamenting, when I saw my ships, With which I hither sail'd, all out at sea, And steering hence ; no mortal in the place ; Not one to succour me; — not one to lend His lenient hand to mitigate my wound ! On every side I roll'd...
Page 240 - is before the tent of Ajax, the " last in station ; so that it has the " camp and fleet of the Grecians " stretching along the shore to the " west, a valley terminated by " mount Ida lying to the east. " The simplicity of the ancient " drama generally confined the " whole representation to one " place, from which the chorus " was not allowed to depart. So...
Page 117 - Shakespeare must have read it in the original, if he read it. at all. The similarity, however, is not so striking as to accuse him of plagiarism, nor so startling as to lessen his claim to originality. We annex a portion from (Edipus : " Get thee hence, thou hast no father here Detested wretch — thou vilest of the vile— And take these curses with thee on thy head, Which I call down ; by arms thy native land 'Never may'st thou recover, nor again Visit the vales of Argos : may's!
Page 39 - ... with stately step the sky: Their father the Olympian king; No mixture of man's mortal mould; Nor shall Oblivion's sable wing In shades their active virtues fold. In them the god is great, nor fears The withering waste of years. Antistrophe 1. The tyrant Pride engenders. Pride With wealth o'erfilled, with greatness vain, Mounting with Outrage at her side, The splendid summit if she gain, Falls headlong from the dangerous brow, Down dash'd to ruin's gulf below.