The Greek Tragic Theatre: EuripidesJohn Walker, 1809 |
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... aged Matrons Beheld , who their abodes at Argos leave , And with their suppliant branches at my knees Fall prostrate , having suffer'd dreadful woes : Now are they childless ; for before the gates Of Thebes were slain their seven ...
... aged Matrons Beheld , who their abodes at Argos leave , And with their suppliant branches at my knees Fall prostrate , having suffer'd dreadful woes : Now are they childless ; for before the gates Of Thebes were slain their seven ...
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... aged woman prostrate at thy knees , Thee I implore my children to redeem Who welter on a foreign plain , unnerv'd By death and to the savage beasts a prey : Thou see'st the piteous tears which from these eyes Unbidden start , and torn ...
... aged woman prostrate at thy knees , Thee I implore my children to redeem Who welter on a foreign plain , unnerv'd By death and to the savage beasts a prey : Thou see'st the piteous tears which from these eyes Unbidden start , and torn ...
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... aged Mother Close to the altar seated with a band Of foreign matrons , who their woes express In various warbled notes , and on the ground Shed from their venerable eyes a stream Of tears their heads are shorn , nor is their garb Suited ...
... aged Mother Close to the altar seated with a band Of foreign matrons , who their woes express In various warbled notes , and on the ground Shed from their venerable eyes a stream Of tears their heads are shorn , nor is their garb Suited ...
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... aged hands . Thee , O thou most belov'd and most renown'd Of Grecian chiefs , I by that beard conjure , While at thy knees thus prostrate , on the ground I for my Sons , a wretched suppliant sue , Or , like some helpless vagabond , pour ...
... aged hands . Thee , O thou most belov'd and most renown'd Of Grecian chiefs , I by that beard conjure , While at thy knees thus prostrate , on the ground I for my Sons , a wretched suppliant sue , Or , like some helpless vagabond , pour ...
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... aged Dames , those holy boughs remove , That I may take her by that much - lov'd hand , And to the royal dome of Egeus lead . Vile is that Son , who to his parents yields No grateful services , for , from his children , He who such ...
... aged Dames , those holy boughs remove , That I may take her by that much - lov'd hand , And to the royal dome of Egeus lead . Vile is that Son , who to his parents yields No grateful services , for , from his children , He who such ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles ADRASTUS AGAMEMNON AGAVE ALCMENA altar ANDROMACHE antient Argive Argos arms Athenian Athens Aulis Bacchus Barbarian Barnes bear behold blest borne Brother CADMUS Calchas Capaneus chariot chief CHORUS CLYTEMNESTRA COPREUS corse Cyclops Dames Daughter death DEMOPHOON didst DOLON dost doth dread e'en erst Euripides Eurystheus Exit eyes fate Father fleet fortunes friends Goddess Gods Grecian Greece Greeks hands hast thou hath Heaven HECTOR HECUBA Helen hence Hercules hither Homer honours host Ilion illustrious IOLAUS IPHIGENIA Jove King land Lord lov'd Maid Markland MENELAUS MESSENGER Minerva Mother Musgrave ne'er nought nuptial o'er ordain'd ORESTES Peleus PENTHEUS Phrygian POLYPHEME PYLADES race realm Rhesus rites sacred seiz'd SEMICHORUS shalt shores SILENUS Sire slain slay Sons soul speak spear stranger suppliant TALTHYBIUS temple Theban Thebes thee THESEUS THOAS thou hast thro toils troops Troy ULYSSES victim virgin whence woes words wretched youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 142 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Seite 295 - False as thou art, and, more than false, forsworn! Not sprung from noble blood, nor goddess-born, But hewn from harden'd entrails of a rock! And rough Hyrcanian tigers gave thee suck!
Seite 295 - Nee tibi diva parens, generis nee Dardanus auctor, Perfide ; sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens Caucasus, Hyrcanaeque admorunt ubera tigres.
Seite 106 - Talk not of ruling in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain words (he cried) can ease my doom. Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
Seite 295 - And raging Seas produc'd thee in a Storm, A Soul well-suiting that tempestuous Kind, So rough thy Manners, so untam'd thy Mind. If some dire Oracle thy Breast alarm, If...
Seite 381 - CHORUS. A thousand shapes our varying Fates assume; The Gods perform what least we could expect, And oft the things for which we fondly hop'd Come not to pass : but Heaven still finds a clue. To guide our steps thro' life's perplexing maze, And thus doth this important business end.
Seite 398 - Ulysses. — If I have uttered an untruth. Silenus. — By Neptune Your sire, O Cyclops, by great Triton, Nereus, Calypso, Nereus' daughters, by the waves, And all the race of fishes, I protest,. Most beauteous Cyclops, my dear little lord, I sold not to the foreigners your goods ; May swift perdition, if I did, o'ertake These sinners here, my children, whom I love Beyond expression. Chorus. — Curb thy tongue : I saw thee Vending thy lord's possessions to the strangers : If I speak falsehood, may...
Seite 73 - Satyros, ita vertere seria ludo, ne quicumque deus, quicumque adhibebitur heros, regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas, aut, dum vitat humum, nubes et inania captet.
Seite 35 - There, deaf for ever to the martial strife) Enjoy the dear prerogative of life. Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold ; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day ! Lost herds and treasures we by arms regain, And steeds unrival'd on the dusty plain : But from our lips the vital spirit fled, Returns no more to wake the silent dead.
Seite 388 - Poly ph erne, they in an evil hour Are entering this inhospitable threshold, And rushing headlong e'en into the jaws Of this fierce Cyclops, gorged with human flesh. But interrupt me not ; I will inquire Whence to Sicilian ^Etna's mount they came. ULYSSES, SILENUS, CHORUS. Ulysses. — Can ye direct me, strangers, Where to find Fresh springs to slake our thirst ; or who will sell Food to the hungry sailor ? But what means That group of satyrs, whom before yon cave I see assembled ? we at Bacchus