Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1Edwin Mallard Everett Dryden Press, 1955 - 1000 pages |
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Page 151
... happy among the living , happy among the dead . " And twenty - three centuries later Matthew Arnold paid his famous tribute to Sophocles as a man " who saw life steadily and saw it whole . " In his plays , as in his life , he gains his ...
... happy among the living , happy among the dead . " And twenty - three centuries later Matthew Arnold paid his famous tribute to Sophocles as a man " who saw life steadily and saw it whole . " In his plays , as in his life , he gains his ...
Page 176
... happy omen let no tongue that tells of evil , darken . Far apart keep sorrow and the service due to God . Of course , when to a town a grim - faced messenger brings fearful tidings of an army fallen , one common wound for all the folk ...
... happy omen let no tongue that tells of evil , darken . Far apart keep sorrow and the service due to God . Of course , when to a town a grim - faced messenger brings fearful tidings of an army fallen , one common wound for all the folk ...
Page 197
... happy ever hear such praise . ANOTHER : A brave death can make happy one who dies . CASSANDRA : My father , you were brave , and brave your sons . [ She moves toward the palace but starts back ] ANOTHER : What thing is there ? What ...
... happy ever hear such praise . ANOTHER : A brave death can make happy one who dies . CASSANDRA : My father , you were brave , and brave your sons . [ She moves toward the palace but starts back ] ANOTHER : What thing is there ? What ...
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