...their active virtues fold. In them the god is great, nor fears The withering waste of years. ANTis.l. The tyrant Pride engenders. Pride With wealth o'er-fill'd, with greatness vain, Mounting with Outrage at herside, The splendid summit if she gain, Falls headlong from the dangerous brovr, Down dash'd to ruin's...

...of Greekless griffs : " The tyrant Pride engenders, — Pride With wealth o'ertilled, with greatneu vain, Mounting with outrage at her side, The splendid...dangerous brow, Down dash'd to ruin's gulf below." But let those Greekless remember as they read, that 6/3pij is not " Pride" in truth. It is that insolence...

...withering waste of years. Antistrophe 1. The tyrant Pride engenders. Pride With wealth o'erfilled, with greatness vain, Mounting with Outrage at her...monarch; for of old, His contest glorious to the state, [ 53 ] I THE DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF KING CEDIPUS. In her own blood the Fury roll'd: So may the god now...

...withering waste of years. Antistrophe 1. The tyrant Pride engenders. Pride With wealth o'erfilled, with greatness vain, Mounting with Outrage at her...monarch; for of old, His contest glorious to the state, [ 53 ] In her own blood the Fury roll'd: So may the god now guide his fate! Still be the god's protection...

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...by the time he tackled Sophocles (1788): The tyrant Pride engenders. Pride With wealth o'erfilled, with greatness vain, Mounting with outrage at her side, The splendid summit if she gain.15 George Somers Clarke opted two years later for prose 'undertaken at the suggestion of a friend...