The hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea of Euripides; literally transl1837 |
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... tear your child from your bosom , and to take her from your aged arms . But go to the temples , speed to the altars , sit a sup- pliant at the knees of Agamemnon , invoke the Gods , both those of heaven , and those under the earth ; for ...
... tear your child from your bosom , and to take her from your aged arms . But go to the temples , speed to the altars , sit a sup- pliant at the knees of Agamemnon , invoke the Gods , both those of heaven , and those under the earth ; for ...
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... tears ; for I have not died in the state in which I ought to have died , nor hath Jove destroyed me , but preserves me , that I wretched may behold other misfortunes greater than any yet experienced . But if it be allowed slaves to put ...
... tears ; for I have not died in the state in which I ought to have died , nor hath Jove destroyed me , but preserves me , that I wretched may behold other misfortunes greater than any yet experienced . But if it be allowed slaves to put ...
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... tear my child from my arms , nor kill her ; enough have died already . In her I rejoice , and forget my misfortunes ; she serves as my consolation in the stead of many things , she is my city , my nurse , my staff , the guide of my way ...
... tear my child from my arms , nor kill her ; enough have died already . In her I rejoice , and forget my misfortunes ; she serves as my consolation in the stead of many things , she is my city , my nurse , my staff , the guide of my way ...
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... tear ? ULYSS . Hecuba , be advised nor through passion deem him thine enemy who gives thee good advice . I indeed am ready to preserve thy person through the means of which I was fortunate ; and I say no other . But what I declared ...
... tear ? ULYSS . Hecuba , be advised nor through passion deem him thine enemy who gives thee good advice . I indeed am ready to preserve thy person through the means of which I was fortunate ; and I say no other . But what I declared ...
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... Or did ye proceed in your butchery as with an enemy , O old man ? Tell me thou you will relate no pleasing tale . TAL . Twice , O lady , thou desirest me to indulge in tears through pity for thy daughter ; for both now 20 488-516 . HECUBA .
... Or did ye proceed in your butchery as with an enemy , O old man ? Tell me thou you will relate no pleasing tale . TAL . Twice , O lady , thou desirest me to indulge in tears through pity for thy daughter ; for both now 20 488-516 . HECUBA .
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Adrastus Agamemnon Antigone Apollo Argives Argos arms army art thou behold blood bride calamity child CHOR CHORUS Clytemnestra corse Creon dead dear death deed destroyed dost thou dreadful earth Edipus ELEC ELECTRA Elmsley enemy ETEO Eteocles evil eyes fate father fortune friends give Gods Grecian Greeks hand hast thou hath hear Hecuba Helen hither honour husband ills Ismenus Jason Jocasta Jove kill lament land marriage MEDEA Menelaus miserable misfortunes mortals mother murder Orestes palace Pelasgian perish PHRY Phrygian POLY Polymestor Polynices POLYX Polyxena Priam Pylades shew sister slain slave slay slew sons speak spear suffer sword tears Theban Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast thou sayest thou shalt thou wilt thy brother thy children thyself tomb Troy Tyndarus ULYSS unhappy virgin wife wilt thou woes woman women words wretched καὶ
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Page 212 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 137 - And he answering said unto him : Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : and if it bear fruit, well ; and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 141 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Page 222 - And they report also that Venus, drawing in her breath from the stream of the fair-flowing Cephisus, breathed over this country gentle, sweetly breathing gales of air ; and always entwining in her hair the fragrant wreath of roses, sends the loves as accessory to wisdom ; the assistants to every virtue."* These are the fine expressions of a poet, but through the ode we see the truth.
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Page 60 - ELECTRA, CHORUS. ORES. O precious balm of sleep, thou that relievest my malady, how pleasant didst thou come to me in the time of need ! O divine oblivion of my sufferings, how wise thou art, and the goddess to be supplicated by all in distress! — whence, in heaven's name, came I hither? and how brought? for I remember not things past, bereaved, as I am, of my senses. ELEC. My dearest brother, how didst thou delight me when thou didst fall asleep ! wilt thou I touch thee, and raise thy body up?
Page 143 - This is more noble, my son, to honour equality, which ever links friends with friends and states with states and allies with allies ; for equality is sanctioned by law among men." ******* ' ' Why dost thou honor so unboundedly that prosperous injustice, royalty, and think so highly of her? " ******* " All the life of man is full of pain, nor is there any respite from our toil ; but whatever state there may be better than this is hid in shrouding clouds of darkness. Fond, indeed, we seem of this glittering...
Page 80 - ... what state, O most dear to me of my companions and kindred ? for all these things art thou to me. ORES. We are gone — briefly to shew thee my calamities. PYL. Thou wilt have ruined me too; for the things of friends are common. ORES. Menelaus has behaved most basely towards me and my sister. PYL. It is to be expected that the husband of a bad wife be bad.
Page 73 - Thais missa haec faciamus. non te dignum, Chaerea, fecisti ; nam si ego digna hac contumelia sum maxume, at tu indignus qui faceres tamen. neque...