SophoclesG. Allen, 1902 - 215 páginas |
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Página xvii
... sense ; but I distinguish : Aeschylus is impersonal because he is too big for self - consciousness . Not with the impersonality of Sophocles . You can see the difference most clearly in this : that Aeschylus was an open field for parody ...
... sense ; but I distinguish : Aeschylus is impersonal because he is too big for self - consciousness . Not with the impersonality of Sophocles . You can see the difference most clearly in this : that Aeschylus was an open field for parody ...
Página xviii
... sense of initiation . Personality fascinates , even ex- pressed in growths which tend towards the extravagant and the grotesque . Self hungers after its own mystery , and seeks for the Self in another communicated by artistic interpre ...
... sense of initiation . Personality fascinates , even ex- pressed in growths which tend towards the extravagant and the grotesque . Self hungers after its own mystery , and seeks for the Self in another communicated by artistic interpre ...
Página xxi
... sense above outlined , and what they saw in Raphael was a perfect artistic embodiment of another civilisation ; Raphael is the ripeness of the Italian Renaissance , as Sophocles is the Periclean Age . If , then , this is the clue to ...
... sense above outlined , and what they saw in Raphael was a perfect artistic embodiment of another civilisation ; Raphael is the ripeness of the Italian Renaissance , as Sophocles is the Periclean Age . If , then , this is the clue to ...
Página xxix
... sense of one who indulges a methodical curiosity . The ac- quaintance between Sophocles and Herodotus is attested ; and were it not , the resemblances of doctrine and diction are too signal to be dismissed as accident . When ...
... sense of one who indulges a methodical curiosity . The ac- quaintance between Sophocles and Herodotus is attested ; and were it not , the resemblances of doctrine and diction are too signal to be dismissed as accident . When ...
Página xxxi
... and cosmopolitanism . II With the common instinct to materialise the ideal conception of beauty in a form , every artist must unite a peculiar sense of the natural beauty inherent in a particular form . The sculptor must INTRODUCTION xxxi.
... and cosmopolitanism . II With the common instinct to materialise the ideal conception of beauty in a form , every artist must unite a peculiar sense of the natural beauty inherent in a particular form . The sculptor must INTRODUCTION xxxi.
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Términos y frases comunes
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...