Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with NotesTalboys, 1833 |
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... wretched in reproach- ing me with this , wherewith is there not one of these who will not speedily reproach thee . CED . Thou art fostered by night alone , so that thou couldst never do either me or any other , whoever he be , that ...
... wretched in reproach- ing me with this , wherewith is there not one of these who will not speedily reproach thee . CED . Thou art fostered by night alone , so that thou couldst never do either me or any other , whoever he be , that ...
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... wretched , and horri- ble , and deplorable , he was but too ready to tell TM : that it was my doom to commit incest with my mother , and that I should bring to light a progeny mankind should not endure to behold , and that I should be ...
... wretched , and horri- ble , and deplorable , he was but too ready to tell TM : that it was my doom to commit incest with my mother , and that I should bring to light a progeny mankind should not endure to behold , and that I should be ...
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... Wretched man , for what purpose ? what wouldst thou know more ? ED . Gavest thou to this man the boy of whom he questions thee ? SER . I did ; but O that I had died on that day . CED . Nay , to this thou wilt come , at least if thou ...
... Wretched man , for what purpose ? what wouldst thou know more ? ED . Gavest thou to this man the boy of whom he questions thee ? SER . I did ; but O that I had died on that day . CED . Nay , to this thou wilt come , at least if thou ...
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... wretched children . But she shrieked aloud over the couch where she had become , unfortunate , the mother of a ... wretch , loosens the hanging knot ; but when the ill - fated corpse was laid on the ground , the sequel was awful to ...
... wretched children . But she shrieked aloud over the couch where she had become , unfortunate , the mother of a ... wretch , loosens the hanging knot ; but when the ill - fated corpse was laid on the ground , the sequel was awful to ...
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... wretched , these my wretched sufferings . But no one wilfully pierced them , but hapless I. For what need had I of sight , I , to whom when seeing there was nought sweet to look on ? CH . This was so , even as thou sayest . ED . What ...
... wretched , these my wretched sufferings . But no one wilfully pierced them , but hapless I. For what need had I of sight , I , to whom when seeing there was nought sweet to look on ? CH . This was so , even as thou sayest . ED . What ...
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Achilles Ægisthus Æschylus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antigone art thou Atridæ aught bear behold Brunck child Chorus Clytemnestra Creon daughter dead death deed Deianira didst dost thou dreadful earth Edipus Electra Euripides Eurytus evil eyes fate father fear friends gods Greeks hand hast thou hath hear heard heaven Hercules Herm Hermann hither honour Ismene Jove king knowest Laïus lament land least lest look MESS misery mortal mother murder Musgrave Neoptolemus never oh father Orestes pain Pelops perished Philoctetes Polybus Polynices present quod sayest thou scholiast Sophocles sorrow speak stranger suffer sure Tecmessa tell Teucer Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself tomb translates Troy Ulysses unhappy utter virgins wert Wherefore wilt thou wish woman words wouldst wretched καὶ
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Page 68 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 371 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 442 - 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 347 - 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 257 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 359 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 158 - 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 209 - 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 163 - 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 382 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!