The tragedies of Euripides translated [by R. Potter]. by R. Potter, Том 1

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Страница 311 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd 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...
Страница 291 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Страница 135 - With honour to have died for thee, t' have saved Their son with honour, glorious in their death. They had no child but thee, they had no hope Of other offspring shouldst thou die ; and I Might thus have lived, thou mightst have lived, till age Crept slowly on, nor wouldst thou heave the sigh Thus of thy wife deprived, nor train alone Thy orphan children. But some god appointed It should be thus : thus be it. Thou to me Requite this kindness ; never shall I ask An equal retribution, nothing bears...
Страница 172 - What a requital she from Jason finds. Of food regardless, and in sorrow sunk She lies, and melts in tears each tedious hour Since first she knew her lord had injured her; Nor lifts her eye, nor lifts her face from the earth, Deaf to her friends...
Страница 140 - Pluto told, And the Stygian boatman old, Whose rude hands grasp the oar, the rudder guide, The dead conveying o'er the tide, Let him be told, so rich a freight before His light skiff never bore : Tell him, that o'er the joyless lakes The noblest of her sex "her dreary passage takes.
Страница 404 - Supplicants,' after the voluntary death of Evadne; Iphis says What shall this wretch now do? Should I return To my own house? — sad desolation there I shall behold, to sink my soul with grief. Or go I to the house of Capaneus? That was delightful to me, when I found My daughter there; but she is there no more: Oft would she kiss my cheek, with fond caress Oft soothe me. To a father, waxing old, Nothing is dearer than a daughter! sons Have spirits of higher pitch, but less inclined To sweet endearing...
Страница 360 - Permit then that the dead Be in the earth entomb'd. Each various part, That constitutes the frame of man, returns Whence it was taken : to th' ethereal sky The soul, the body to its earth : of all Nought, save this breathing space of life, our own: The earth then, which sustain'd it when alive, Ought to receive it dead.
Страница v - Euripides, after much and earnest invitation, at length complied with the king's request, and went to Pella, where he was received with every mark of esteem and honour. Archelaus knew how to value a man of modesty and learning, a lover of truth and virtue ; but he particularly admired the disinterestedness, the amiable candour, and gentleness of manners, which distinguished Euripides, and made him worthy of the liberality, the esteem, and affection of such a king.
Страница 372 - From foul and savage life, hath my best thanks. Inspiring reason first, he gave the tongue Articulate sounds, the intercourse of language : The growth of fruits he gave, and to that growth The...
Страница 33 - Yes, to the Bacchae shall he go, and there Perish beneath their vengeance : as a mark He stands, ye females, to our shafts exposed. Now, Bacchus, comes thy part ; nor distant thou ; Avenge us on him ; of his senses first Deprive him, with light madness strike his soul...

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