The tragedies of Sophocles, tr. into Engl. verse. By T. Dale1824 |
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Strana 10
... misery , and of that misery he is the cause ! But it would be unpardonable in a Christian writer , while commenting upon this drama , to pass lightly over that which Sophocles himself claimed as the brightest ornament of his native ...
... misery , and of that misery he is the cause ! But it would be unpardonable in a Christian writer , while commenting upon this drama , to pass lightly over that which Sophocles himself claimed as the brightest ornament of his native ...
Strana 17
... misery weeps , Nor thinks of others ' pain ; -my heart is wrung At once for you , the city , and myself . Nor do ye rouse me now from reckless sleep ; Know , many tears your King hath shed for you , And traversed many a path in ...
... misery weeps , Nor thinks of others ' pain ; -my heart is wrung At once for you , the city , and myself . Nor do ye rouse me now from reckless sleep ; Know , many tears your King hath shed for you , And traversed many a path in ...
Strana 22
... darting Phoebus ! Mighty Three ! Appear - avert our misery ! If from our Thebes her former woe Your guardian - care dispelled , O come to aid us now ! STROPHE II . Alas ! unnumbered ills we bear ; 22 CEDIPUS TYRANNUS .
... darting Phoebus ! Mighty Three ! Appear - avert our misery ! If from our Thebes her former woe Your guardian - care dispelled , O come to aid us now ! STROPHE II . Alas ! unnumbered ills we bear ; 22 CEDIPUS TYRANNUS .
Strana 27
... misery and despair , Torn from the common blessings of mankind . Yea , on myself , ' if , conscious of the deed , I grant the wretch asylum in my home , The same dread curse , in all its vengeance , fall ! Ye too I charge , our solemn ...
... misery and despair , Torn from the common blessings of mankind . Yea , on myself , ' if , conscious of the deed , I grant the wretch asylum in my home , The same dread curse , in all its vengeance , fall ! Ye too I charge , our solemn ...
Strana 88
... Misery hath no name For aught that blends not in his cup of sorrow . Ch . Is there no pause of respite from his pangs ? Mess . He calls aloud , with clamours wild and shrill , ' T'unbar the portals , and to all the Thebans , Expose the ...
... Misery hath no name For aught that blends not in his cup of sorrow . Ch . Is there no pause of respite from his pangs ? Mess . He calls aloud , with clamours wild and shrill , ' T'unbar the portals , and to all the Thebans , Expose the ...
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Ægisthus Æschylus Ajax ANTIGONE ANTISTROPHE arms art thou Atreus aught bear behold blood Cambridge canst charge CHORUS Chry CHRYSOTHEMIS Clytemnestra Creon curse dare dark daughter dead death deed deem DEIANIRA doom dost thou doth dread e'en Edipus Elec Electra Euripides Eurytus fate father fear friends Gods guilty hand hapless hast thou hate hath hear Heaven hence Herc hither honour ills ISMENE Jocasta Jove King know'st Laius Lord mayst misery monarch mortal mother murderer ne'er Neop NEOPTOLEMUS never nought o'er Orestes pangs Philoctetes pity Polybus Polynices prayer reverence shalt shame sire Sophocles sorrow soul speak stranger STROPHE tale TECMESSA tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou wilt thy words thyself TIRESIAS toil tomb Ulys Ulysses unhappy vengeance wherefore wild wilt thou woes wouldst thou wrath wretch
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Strana 251 - 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.
Strana 371 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Strana 213 - Ille dapes laudet mensae brevis, ille salubrem Justitiam legesque et apertis otia portis ; Ille tegat commissa deosque precetur et oret, *» Ut redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis.
Strana 117 - Sepv&v eSpav teal %ev6<rracnv, 90), amid thunderings, lightnings, and earthquakes, as signs from heaven (a-rjAs the company of aged men draw near, who constitute the chorus, Oedipus screens himself in the thickest of the grove ; and they, as they search for him, sing with trembling voice...
Strana 243 - Concede that name to hers, if from this crime She shall escape unpunished. Though she spring From our own sister, she shall not evade A shameful death. Ant. And welcome! Whence could I Obtain a holier praise than by committing My brother to the tomb ? These, too, I know Would all approve the action, but that fear Curbs their free thoughts to base and servile silence ; But 'tis the noble privilege of tyrants To say and do whate'er their lordly will, Their only law, may prompt. Cr. Of all the Thebans...
Strana 178 - Who can think one thing, and another tell, My soul detests him as the gates of hell : — siitog that is, I hate him as death, or I hate him mortally.
Strana 249 - Labdacus! arising from the dead With fresh despair ; nor sires from sons efface The curse some angry power hath rivetted For ever on thy destined line! Once more a cheering radiance seemed to shine O'er the last relic of thy name ;— This, too, the Powers of Darkness claim, Cut off by Hell's keen scythe, combined With haughty words unwise, and frenzy of the mind.
Strana 81 - I wilt thou not be silent? (Ed. Reprove him not, old man, for thine own words, Far more than his, demand a stern reprover. Herd. I did : — Oh, had that moment been my last! (Ed. This shall be, if thou wilt not speak the truth. Herd. And if I speak it, I am trebly lost. (Ed. This man, it seems, still struggles to elude us. ' Herd. No, I confessed long since I gave the child. (Ed. And whence received ? thine own, or from another ? Herd. No, not mine own ; I from another's hand Bare him. (Ed. And...
Strana 69 - ... and gone. (Ed. Died he by treason, or the chance of sickness? Cor. Slight ills dismiss the aged to their rest. (Ed. Then by disease, it seems, the monarch died. Cor. And bowed beneath a withering weight of years. (Ed. Ha ! is it thus ? Then, lady, who would heed The Pythian shrine oracular, or birds Clanging in air, by whose vain auspices I was fore-doomed the murderer of my father? In the still silence of the tomb he sleeps. While I am here — the fatal sword untouched, Unless he languished...
Strana 241 - I perish ere th' allotted term, I deem that death a blessing. Who that lives, Like me, encompassed by unnumbered ills, But would account it blessedness to die ? If then I meet the doom thy laws assign, It nothing grieves me. Had I left my brother, From...