Illustrations of the tragedies of Ęschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin, and English poets, with an intr. essay, by J.F. BoyesJohn Frederick Boyes 1842 |
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... Beaumont and Fletcher , Massinger , and Shirley , all men of considerable education , are , I think , neither more in number , nor more close , than may be accounted for by accident , and a general knowledge of Greek as a language . d ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher , Massinger , and Shirley , all men of considerable education , are , I think , neither more in number , nor more close , than may be accounted for by accident , and a general knowledge of Greek as a language . d ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy , act iv . sc . 1 . 711 Χάριν τροφᾶς γὰρ ἀμείβων , Μηλοφόνοισιν ἄγαισιν Δαῖτ ̓ ἀκέλευστος ἔτευξεν Αἵματι δ ̓ οἶκος ἐφύρθη . Ιδ ̓ ἁ χάρις ἐς τὶ ποθέρπει ; Θρέψαι καὶ λυκιδεῖς , θρέψαι κύνας , ὥς τυ ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy , act iv . sc . 1 . 711 Χάριν τροφᾶς γὰρ ἀμείβων , Μηλοφόνοισιν ἄγαισιν Δαῖτ ̓ ἀκέλευστος ἔτευξεν Αἵματι δ ̓ οἶκος ἐφύρθη . Ιδ ̓ ἁ χάρις ἐς τὶ ποθέρπει ; Θρέψαι καὶ λυκιδεῖς , θρέψαι κύνας , ὥς τυ ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage . Also Sept. Cont . Theb . 769 . 990 Τὸ δ ̓ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσόνθ ̓ " Απαξ θανάσιμον And thou returning to the hearth of home Portendest summer - suns in winter's trout . - های & Martia castra Effieil Ex ides ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage . Also Sept. Cont . Theb . 769 . 990 Τὸ δ ̓ ἐπὶ γᾶν πεσόνθ ̓ " Απαξ θανάσιμον And thou returning to the hearth of home Portendest summer - suns in winter's trout . - های & Martia castra Effieil Ex ides ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess , act v . sc . 3 . But let not chief the nightingale lament , Whilst all abandoned to despair she sings Her sorrows through the night . Thomson's Spring . The recollection of almost every ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess , act v . sc . 3 . But let not chief the nightingale lament , Whilst all abandoned to despair she sings Her sorrows through the night . Thomson's Spring . The recollection of almost every ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle , ii . 2 . 1248 Καὶ νῦν ὁ μάντις μάντιν ἐκπράξας ἐμέ . The instances of this juxtaposition of the same substantive in different cases are innumerable in Greek . The Latin poets use it ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle , ii . 2 . 1248 Καὶ νῦν ὁ μάντις μάντιν ἐκπράξας ἐμέ . The instances of this juxtaposition of the same substantive in different cases are innumerable in Greek . The Latin poets use it ...
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Page 16 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary...
Page 37 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 15 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 25 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which, when rent, The earth is cover'd thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 12 - Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shall not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Page 34 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page xxvi - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observ'd his courtship to the common people : — • How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles, And patient under bearing- of his fortune, As 'twere, to banish their affects with him.
Page 3 - Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.
Page 12 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Page 17 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.