The Tragedies of Euripides: Translated. In Two Volumes, المجلد 2J. Dodsley, 1783 |
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Achilles againſt Agamemnon ANDROMACH ANTIS TROPHE Argive Argos arms Atreus baſe bear beneath bleft blood breaſt Calchas cauſe CHOR CHORUS CLYTEM CLYTEMNESTRA death deed doft thou dreadfull e'er ELECTRA Euripides eyes facred fall'n fate father fave felf fhall fhrine fifter firſt flain flave fome foon foul friends fuch fword goddeſs gods Grecian Greece grief hallow'd hand hath Hector HECU HECUBA HELEN HERMIONE honour houfe houſe ills IPHIGENIA Jove juſtice loft lord Menelaus moſt mother muſt NESTRA nuptials o'er Oreftes ORESTE Peleus Phoebus Phrygian Phthia pow'r preſent Priam purpoſe PYLA Pylades raiſe rites ſay SEMICHORUS ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhips ſhore ſhould ſon ſpeak ſpear ſpeed ſtate ſteps ſtrangers STROPHE ſword T H O A TALTHY BIU tears thee thefe THEO CLY theſe thine thoſe Thracian thy daughter toils tomb tow'rs Troy unhappy virgin whofe whoſe wife wilt thou wiſh wou'dft wretched
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الصفحة 363 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
الصفحة 16 - O'er fields of death they whirl the rapid car, And break the ranks, and thunder through the war. Ajax in arms the first renown...
الصفحة 70 - My brother, small assistance canst thou give Thy friends; yet for thy sister with thy tears Implore thy father that she may not die: Even infants have a sense of ills; and see, My father! silent though he be, he sues To thee: be gentle to me; on my life Have pity: thy two children by this beard Entreat thee, thy dear children: one is yet An infant, one to riper years arrived.
الصفحة 210 - Ariftotle, though he does not himfelf produce any examples, may be verified from the following, among many others. In the Phoenicians of Euripides, they fing a long and very beautiful, but ill placed, hymn to Mars ; I fpeak of that which begins fo nobly, ver.
الصفحة 85 - I suffer not a tear to fall. But you, Ye virgins, to my fate attune the hymn, "Diana, daughter of almighty Jove." With fav'ring omens sing " Success to Greece." Come, with the basket one begin the rites, One with the purifying cakes the flames Enkindle ; let my father his right hand Place on the altar ; for I come to give Safety to Greece, and conquest to her arms.
الصفحة 10 - Should he not win the virgin : this was cause To Tyndarus her father of much doubt, To give, or not to give her, and how best To make good fortune his : at length this thought Occurr'd, that each to each the wooers give Their oath, and plight their hands, and on the flames Pour the libations, and with solemn vows Bind their firm faith that him, who should obtain The virgin for his bride, they all would aid ; If any dar'd to seize and bear her off, And drive by force her husband from her bed, All...
الصفحة 546 - For him, as dead, with pious care This goblet I prepare; And on the bosom of the earth shall flow Streams from the heifer mountain-bred, The grape's rich juice, and, mix'd with these, The labour of the yellow bees, Libations soothing to the dead.
الصفحة 364 - From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy fnow: But from the breezy deep the bleft inhale The fragrant murmurs of the weftern gale. This grace peculiar will the Gods afford 775 Him in Calrpfo's cave of late I view'd, 755 When dreaming grief his faded check bedew'd.
الصفحة 575 - She whom thou seest : but interrupt me not. To Argos, O my brother, ere I die, Bear me from this barbaric land, and far Remove me from this altar's bloody rites, At which to slay the stranger is my charge.
الصفحة 69 - Then she adjures him by all the sacred ties, and dwells pathetically on the circumstance which had struck even Menelaus. "If Paris be enamored of his bride, His Helen, what concerns it me? and how Comes he to my destruction? Look upon me; Give me a smile, give me a kiss, my father; That if my words persuade thee not, in death I may have this memorial of thy love.