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... sons , ye youthful progeny . Of Cadmus old , why have you here your seats Holding these suppliant boughs , whilst incense fumes Through all the town , and sacred songs and cries Resound ? No vulgar messenger I send , But deem it worthy ...
... sons , ye youthful progeny . Of Cadmus old , why have you here your seats Holding these suppliant boughs , whilst incense fumes Through all the town , and sacred songs and cries Resound ? No vulgar messenger I send , But deem it worthy ...
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... sons arranged Along the forum hold their suppliant boughs , And at Minerva's temples , and the shrine Prophetic nigh Ismenus : for the state , Thine eyes behold it , labours in the storm , Unable from the blood - stain'd wave to rear ...
... sons arranged Along the forum hold their suppliant boughs , And at Minerva's temples , and the shrine Prophetic nigh Ismenus : for the state , Thine eyes behold it , labours in the storm , Unable from the blood - stain'd wave to rear ...
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... sons , for ills well known To me you seek redress ; I know that grief Hangs heavy on you all , but most on me : His ... Son of Menaceus , to the Pythian shrine Of Phoebus , to inquire what I must do To save this city . As I number back ...
... sons , for ills well known To me you seek redress ; I know that grief Hangs heavy on you all , but most on me : His ... Son of Menaceus , to the Pythian shrine Of Phoebus , to inquire what I must do To save this city . As I number back ...
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... sons of Thebes convene : My pow'r shall be exerted ; and once more Will we , confiding in the favouring god , Together prosper , or together fall . Let us arise , my sons : our sovereign grants The grace we came to ask ; and may the god ...
... sons of Thebes convene : My pow'r shall be exerted ; and once more Will we , confiding in the favouring god , Together prosper , or together fall . Let us arise , my sons : our sovereign grants The grace we came to ask ; and may the god ...
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... sons Of Thebes , who with applause these things receive , May justice join her aid , and all the gods Be present always with propitious pow'r ! CHOR . As solemnly by thee adjured , O king , So will I speak . I neither murder'd him , Nor ...
... sons Of Thebes , who with applause these things receive , May justice join her aid , and all the gods Be present always with propitious pow'r ! CHOR . As solemnly by thee adjured , O king , So will I speak . I neither murder'd him , Nor ...
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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.