SophoclesG. Allen, 1902 - 215 páginas |
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Página vii
... killed the elegiac couplet in Latin for all purposes but wit ; only , in Latin , no poet arose to revive it . Between the dry , tense brilliance of Pope's couplet and the moribund wateriness of William Morris ' archaistic rhym- ing ...
... killed the elegiac couplet in Latin for all purposes but wit ; only , in Latin , no poet arose to revive it . Between the dry , tense brilliance of Pope's couplet and the moribund wateriness of William Morris ' archaistic rhym- ing ...
Página xv
... killing each other ; Antigone re- moving corpse of Polynices from beside the sleeping watchmen . Roman period . XV Page 18 • 34 " " 53 99 89 · 99 104 120 and 121 Page 127 xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THANATOS · Portion of PAGE PREFACE LIST ...
... killing each other ; Antigone re- moving corpse of Polynices from beside the sleeping watchmen . Roman period . XV Page 18 • 34 " " 53 99 89 · 99 104 120 and 121 Page 127 xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THANATOS · Portion of PAGE PREFACE LIST ...
Página lv
... kill themselves or forswear thinking for fear of its consequences ; the temper which digests contradictions and har- monises all things . This temper takes shape in his favourite virtues . cußovλía we have seen is the text of Antigone ...
... kill themselves or forswear thinking for fear of its consequences ; the temper which digests contradictions and har- monises all things . This temper takes shape in his favourite virtues . cußovλía we have seen is the text of Antigone ...
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... kill The son of Labdakos , and Polydore , Old Cadmus , and Agênor , King of yore . And may the Gods to all who do not so , Render no increase of their acres , no Fruit of their wives ; but let them be infested With plagues as now , and ...
... kill The son of Labdakos , and Polydore , Old Cadmus , and Agênor , King of yore . And may the Gods to all who do not so , Render no increase of their acres , no Fruit of their wives ; but let them be infested With plagues as now , and ...
Página 11
... kill The son of Labdakos , and Polydore , Old Cadmus , and Agênor , King of yore . my will And may the Gods to all who do not so , Render no increase of their acres , no Fruit of their wives ; but let them be infested With plagues as ...
... kill The son of Labdakos , and Polydore , Old Cadmus , and Agênor , King of yore . my will And may the Gods to all who do not so , Render no increase of their acres , no Fruit of their wives ; but let them be infested With plagues as ...
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1st Counter-turn 1st Turn 2nd Counter-turn 2nd Turn 4th century B.C. 5th century Aegeus Aeschylus Ajax Antigone Apollo Athens Attic blind brother child CHORUS Colonos Creon curse daughter dead dear death diction Dionysus dipus divine doom Edipus Edipus Coloneus Enter CREON Eteocles Euripides Exit eyes fate father fear gain God's Gods Greek grim Haemon hand hear heart honour ISMENE Jocasta kill King Laïos land living look Lord maids march measure Menoeceus mind mother murder ne'er Neoptolemus never pain Periclean Periclean Age Phoebus phrase play Plutarch poet Polybus Polyneices pray prove sake shame Shep sight Sire Sophocles speak style suppliant tale Teiresias tell Theban Thebes thee Theseus thing thou thought Tragedy twas What's word wretch Zeus ἂν γὰρ καὶ τὸ
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Página v - If, because of the immense fame of the following Tragedy, I wished to acquaint myself with it, and could only do so by the help of a translator, I should require him to be literal at every cost save that of absolute violence to our language.
Página xviii - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Página v - I would be tolerant for once, — in the case of so immensely famous an original, — of even a clumsy attempt to furnish me with the very turn of each phrase in as Greek a fashion as English will bear...
Página lxvi - Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of Living : 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
Página lxxiii - ... be considerably operated upon, without presenting any image at all, by certain sounds adapted to that purpose; of which we have a sufficient proof in the acknowledged and powerful effects of instrumental music. In reality, a great clearness helps but little towards affecting the passions, as it is in some sort an enemy to all enthusiasms whatsoever.
Página 165 - And Love can splay Uprightest of virtue; Lead astray, Better to hurt you ! 'Tis he did the wrong, 'Tis he beguiled Father and son to feud so dire. Desire's too strong ! — Out of the eyelid Peeped of a lovely bride, Desire ! He with Law has a court, Sovran in might with her. Divine Aphrodite wreaks her sport; Who will be bold to fight with her?
Página 86 - Haunts o' the God where the berries are legion ! Never a wintry wind dishevels Bacchus' close, never hot sun forces These shy swards where he loves to lead the revels, Nymphs to nurse and to tend his courses.' But it may justly be said that this rendering, though close and in some ways good, is yet by no means what it certainly should be — great poetry. For, though the translator quotes ' the great Erasmus ' to show that 'antiquity played the fool in this sort of choruses in which eloquence is...
Página 165 - When Love disputes He carries his battles ! Love he loots The rich of their chattels ! By delicate cheeks On maiden's pillow Watches he all the night-time long ; His prey he seeks Over the billow, Pastoral haunts he preys among. Gods are deathless, and they Cannot elude his whim ; And oh ! amid us whose life's a day, Mad is the heart that broodeth him...