Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1Edwin Mallard Everett Dryden Press, 1955 - 1000 pages |
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... thoughts o'ercome me . JOCASTA . What vexing care bespeaks this sudden change ? CEDIPUS . I thought I heard thee say that Laios fell , Smitten to death where meet the three great roads . JOCASTA . So was it said , and still the rumors ...
... thoughts o'ercome me . JOCASTA . What vexing care bespeaks this sudden change ? CEDIPUS . I thought I heard thee say that Laios fell , Smitten to death where meet the three great roads . JOCASTA . So was it said , and still the rumors ...
Page 359
... thought wise by many , and still wiser by himself ; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise , but was not really wise ; and the conse- quence was that he hated me , and his enmity was shared by several who ...
... thought wise by many , and still wiser by himself ; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise , but was not really wise ; and the conse- quence was that he hated me , and his enmity was shared by several who ...
Page 473
... thought to be the most easy for himself , and the most exact . All his yearly products and profits he sold together in a lump , and supplied his household needs afterwards by buying everything that he or his family wanted out of the ...
... thought to be the most easy for himself , and the most exact . All his yearly products and profits he sold together in a lump , and supplied his household needs afterwards by buying everything that he or his family wanted out of the ...
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