The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose, a new literal tr., with copious notes1844 |
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Ægisthus afflicted Ajax Antigone Apollo Atridæ bear behold blood born bring brother Brunck translates calamity called chariot child Chorus CHRYS Clytemnestra coming conjecture consider Creon dead dearest death deed Deianira destroyed disease disgraceful Edipus ELEC Ellendt Ellendt says enemies entreat Eurytus evil eyes fate father fear friends gods Greeks grief grieve hand hated hear heard Hercules Hermann hither honour Jocasta Jupiter king labour Laius lament land Lemnos lest living longer means mind miserable misfortunes mortals mother murder NEOP Neoptolemus never oracle Orestes perish PHIL Philoctetes pity Pluto Polybus Polynices Pythian games receive reproach sail Scholiast shew slain slay slew Sophocles speak speech stranger suffer Tecmessa tell terrible Teucer Thebes Theseus things thou Tiresias tomb Troy truth ULYS Ulysses unhappy utter wicked wise wish woman words wretched Wunder says καὶ Сно
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Side 337 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Side 152 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee ; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
Side 15 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Side 249 - ... our watch up, and by my advice, Let us impart what we have seen to-night Unto young Hamlet ; for upon my life This Spirit dumb to us will speak to him : Do you consent, we shall acquaint him with it, As needful in our love, fitting our duty ? " Ed. 1603. It appears to me, that it is to this line, " the bright beam of the sun is making audible to us the morning song of the birds...
Side 77 - Seque ortum antiqua Teucrorum ab stirpe volebat. Quare agite, o tectis, juvenes, succedite nostris. Me quoque per multos similis fortuna labores Jactatam hac demum voluit consistere terra. Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.
Side 28 - Then absolve thyself of the things whereof thou speakest; hearken to me, and learn for thy comfort that nought of mortal birth is a sharer in the science of the seer. I will give thee pithy proof of that. An oracle came to Laius once — I will not say from Phoebus himself, but from his ministers — that the doom should overtake him to die by the hand of his child, who should spring from him and me. Now...
Side 67 - The way is long, and many rumours from wayfarers are wont to go abroad; when he hears them, he will soon be with us, fear not. For thy name, old man, hath been mightily noised through...
Side 181 - Opt. of wish, which is thus often distinguished from the Opt. in its other uses. Thus...
Side 92 - State hath been ordered: yet, while giving such large praise, thou forgettest this, — that if any land knows how to worship the gods with due rites, this land excels therein; whence thou hadst planned to steal me, the suppliant, the old man, and didst seek to seize me, and hast already carried off my daughters.