The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... born of generous parents , and the name of nobility of birth among the illustrious , proceeds from great to greater still . HEC . You have spoken honourably , my daughter , but in that honourable dwells grief . But if the son of Pe ...
... born of generous parents , and the name of nobility of birth among the illustrious , proceeds from great to greater still . HEC . You have spoken honourably , my daughter , but in that honourable dwells grief . But if the son of Pe ...
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... born palm tree and the laurel shot forth their hallowed branches to their beloved Latona , the boast of the divine parturition ? And with the Delian nymphs shall I celebrate in song the golden chaplet and bow of Diana ? Or , in the ...
... born palm tree and the laurel shot forth their hallowed branches to their beloved Latona , the boast of the divine parturition ? And with the Delian nymphs shall I celebrate in song the golden chaplet and bow of Diana ? Or , in the ...
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... born so hapless ! HEC . Never indeed , except you reckon Misfortune herself . But for what cause I fall at thy knees now hear if I appear to you to suffer these ills justly , I would be reconciled to them ; but if otherwise , be thou my ...
... born so hapless ! HEC . Never indeed , except you reckon Misfortune herself . But for what cause I fall at thy knees now hear if I appear to you to suffer these ills justly , I would be reconciled to them ; but if otherwise , be thou my ...
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... born , three from one mother , Chrysothemis , and Iphigenia , and my- self Electra ; and Orestes the male part of the family , from a most unholy mother , who slew her husband , having covered him around with an inextricable robe ; the ...
... born , three from one mother , Chrysothemis , and Iphigenia , and my- self Electra ; and Orestes the male part of the family , from a most unholy mother , who slew her husband , having covered him around with an inextricable robe ; the ...
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... born of Jove . For which , O my wretched heart and soul , I have given no good return : what dark veil can I take for my counte- nance ? what cloud can I place before me , that I may avoid the glances of the old man's eyes ? TYNDARUS ...
... born of Jove . For which , O my wretched heart and soul , I have given no good return : what dark veil can I take for my counte- nance ? what cloud can I place before me , that I may avoid the glances of the old man's eyes ? TYNDARUS ...
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Page 141 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.
Page 142 - Why, my child, dost thou so desirously court ambition, the most baneful of the deities ? do not thou ; the Goddess is unjust. But she hath entered into many families and happy states and hath come forth again, to the destruction of those who have to do with her. Of whom thou art madly enamoured. This is more noble, my son, to honour equality, which ever links friends with friends, and states with states, and allies with allies : for equality is sanctioned by law among men.
Page 80 - What is this ? how art thou ? in what state, O most dear to me of my companions and kindred ? for all these things art thou to me. OREs. We are gone — briefly to shew thee my calamities. PYL. Thou wilt have ruined me too ; for the things of friends are common. OREs. Menelaus has behaved most basely towards me and my sister. PYL. It is to be expected that the husband of a bad wife be bad.
Page 198 - CHORUs. CHOR. I heard the voice, I heard the cry of the unhappy Colchian ; is not she yet appeased ? but, O aged matron, tell me ; for within the apartment with double doors, I heard her cry; nor am I delighted, O woman, with the griefs of the family, since it is friendly to me. NUR. The family is not ; these things are gone already : 1 In Elms. Dind. rd yilp eWiaBai, "for the being accustomed,