Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1Edwin Mallard Everett Dryden Press, 1955 - 1000 pages |
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Page 27
... sweet wine and old . And the close - fitted doors , the folding doors , were shut , and night and day there abode within a dame in charge , who guarded all the fulness of her wisdom , Eurycleia , daughter of Ops son of Peisenor ...
... sweet wine and old . And the close - fitted doors , the folding doors , were shut , and night and day there abode within a dame in charge , who guarded all the fulness of her wisdom , Eurycleia , daughter of Ops son of Peisenor ...
Page 140
... sweet sleep fell not upon her eyelids till the tale was ended . . . . Then sweet sleep came speedily upon him , sleep that loosens the limbs of men , un- knitting the cares of his soul . Then the goddess , grey - eyed Athene , turned to ...
... sweet sleep fell not upon her eyelids till the tale was ended . . . . Then sweet sleep came speedily upon him , sleep that loosens the limbs of men , un- knitting the cares of his soul . Then the goddess , grey - eyed Athene , turned to ...
Page 270
... sweet , For to escape one's - self from ill is sweet , But to bring friends to trouble , this is hard And painful . Yet my nature bids me count Above all these things safety for myself . CREON ( to ANTIGONE ) . Thou , then - yes , thou ...
... sweet , For to escape one's - self from ill is sweet , But to bring friends to trouble , this is hard And painful . Yet my nature bids me count Above all these things safety for myself . CREON ( to ANTIGONE ) . Thou , then - yes , thou ...
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