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Euripides
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  • But call forth thundering Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles to us.†   (source)
  • Only this earth endured, upon whose lonely breast he read Euripides.†   (source)
  • Left alone in the great house, father shut in his study at the top, Lizzie polishing brass stair rods, another maid doing bedrooms, Shag asleep on his mat, while Sophie, I suppose, stood at the back door taking in joints, milk, vegetables from tradespeople in their little carts, I mounted to my room; spread my Liddell and Scott upon the table, and settled down to read Plato, or to make out some scene in Euripides or Sophocles for Clara Pater, or Janet Case.†   (source)
  • [1* 'It remains a strange and almost inexplicable fact that in Athena's city, where women were kept in almost Oriental suppression as odalisques or drudges, the stage should yet have produced figures like Clytemnestra and Cassandra Atossa and Antigone, Phedre and Medea, and all the other heroines who dominate play after play of the "misogynist" Euripides.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, they slipped quickly into an easier relation: by Spring, he was reading Euripides with some confidence.†   (source)
  • It would be better to breed horses and live in one of those red villas than to run in and out of the skulls of Sophocles and Euripides like a maggot, with a high-minded wife, one of those University women.†   (source)
  • And Euripides (whatever the disparagement of pedantry) he thought one of the greatest lyrical singers in all poetry.†   (source)
  • At Buck Benson's suggestion, he read Murray's Euripides (at the time he was reading the Greek text of the Alcestis—noblest and loveliest of all the myths of Love and Death).†   (source)
  • As Euripides says, one man's meat is another man's poison morally as well as physically.†   (source)
  • His thoughts went on: "—Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus.†   (source)
  • You remember what Euripides says about your money and gunpowder?†   (source)
  • You tire me, Euripides, with your morality mongering.†   (source)
  • You are eligible, Euripides: you are eligible.†   (source)
  • You are a shark of the first order, Euripides.†   (source)
  • Come, Euripides! it is getting late; and we all want to get home.†   (source)
  • UNDERSHAFT [to Cusins] quite well after last night, Euripides, eh?†   (source)
  • Among the more eminent Bluecoat boys are Joshua Barnes, editor of Anacreon and Euripides; Jeremiah Markland, the eminent critic, particularly in Greek Literature; Camden, the antiquary; Bishop Stillingfleet; Samuel Richardson, the novelist; Thomas Mitchell, the translator of Aristophanes; Thomas Barnes, many years editor of the London Times; Coleridge, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt.†   (source)
  • Can a sane man translate Euripides?†   (source)
  • Euripides mentions Barbara, does he?†   (source)
  • You are fencing, Euripides.†   (source)
  • Proceed, Euripides.†   (source)
  • The fishwoman of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer.†   (source)
  • It is told of Brutus,[340] that when he fell on his sword, after the battle of Philippi,[341] he quoted a line of Euripides,[342]—"O virtue!†   (source)
  • But I cannot admit that the class represented by Eschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Shakespear, Goethe, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, not to mention our own contemporary playwrights, is as much in place in Mr Redford's office as a pickpocket is in Bow Street.†   (source)
  • This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after Corneille, like Euripides after AEschylus.†   (source)
  • And so, forsooth, the youth are said to be taught them by Socrates, when there are not unfrequently exhibitions of them at the theatre (Probably in allusion to Aristophanes who caricatured, and to Euripides who borrowed the notions of Anaxagoras, as well as to other dramatic poets.†   (source)
  • 14 EURIPIDES Then song had served us in our need.†   (source)
  • For I stood afar at the gate, And there came from within a crv, io EURIPIDES And wailing desolate.†   (source)
  • … Of this judgment not a line 22 EURIPIDES Shall waver nor abate.†   (source)
  • Keep them apart : Let not their mother meet them while her heart 8 EURIPIDES Is darkened.†   (source)
  • As for the poets, they have Aristophanes, Homer, Euripides, and Sophocles of Aldus's edition; and for historians, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Herodian.†   (source)
  • Euphorion was first, Sophocles second, Euripides third, with Medea t Philoctetes, Dictys, and the Harvesters, a Satyr-play.†   (source)
  • 36 EURIPIDES Make Innocence my friend, God's fairest star, Yea, and abate not The rare sweet beat of bosoms without war, That love, and hate not.†   (source)
  • Jason doth forsake My mistress and his own two sons, to make EURIPIDES His couch in a king's chamber.†   (source)
  • Ho, woman; get thee gone And lead lord Jason hither…… There is none 48 EURIPIDES Like thee, to work me these high services.†   (source)
  • 24 EURIPIDES On to the peril-point !†   (source)
  • Women, my strength is gone, Gone like a dream, since once I looked upon 60 EURIPIDES Those shining faces.†   (source)
  • And thou, if aught of mine Thou needest, speak, though never touch of thine 74 EURIPIDES Shall scathe me more.†   (source)
  • And more, thou hast made menace … so the alarms i8 EURIPIDES But now have reached mine ear … on bride and groom, And him who gave the bride, to work thy doom Of vengeance.†   (source)
  • And this thing more I surely say, 68 EURIPIDES That those of all men who are counted wise, Strong wits, devisers of great policies, Do pay the bitterest toll.†   (source)
  • Since thou wilt build so wondrous high Thy deeds of service in my jeopardy, 30 EURIPIDES To all my crew and quest I know but one Saviour, of Gods or mortals one alone, The Cyprian.†   (source)
  • For thee, behold, death draweth on, Evil and lonely, like thine heart:, the hands Of thine old Argo, rotting where she stands, 78 EURIPIDES Snau smite thine head in twain, and bitter be To the last end thy memories of me.†   (source)
  • Yet will I make one prayer, That my two children be no more exiled But stay…… Oh, not that I would leave a child 4<5 EURIPIDES Here upon angry shores till those have laughed Who hate me : 'tis that I will slay by craft The king's daughter.†   (source)
  • 26 EURIPIDES Dark is the house afar, Where an old king called thee daughter; All that was once thy star In stormy water, Dark : and, lo, in the nearer House that was sworn to love thee, Another, queenlier, dearer, Is throned above thee.†   (source)
  • Give me to see Him and his bride, who sought My grief when I wronged her not, Broken in misery, 12 EURIPIDES And all her house…… O God, My mother's home, and the dim Shore that I left for him, And the voice of my brother's blood…… NURSE.†   (source)
  • Her lord, if he be wearied of the face Withindoors, gets him forth; some merrier place Will ease his heart : but she waits on, her whole Vision enchained on a single souL 16 EURIPIDES And then, forsooth, 'tis they that face the call Of war, while we sit sheltered, hid from all Peril!†   (source)
  • My children, go Forth into those rich halls, and, bowing low, Beseech your father's bride, whom I obey, Ye be not, of her mercy, cast away 56 EURIPIDES Exiled: and give the caskets above all Mark this! to none but her, to hold withal And keep.†   (source)
  • Seeing it is the king's behest To cast me out from Corinth …. aye, and best, Far best, for me I know it not to stay Longer to trouble thee and those who sway The realm, being held to all their house a foe…… Behold, I spread my sails, and meekly go 54 EURIPIDES To exile.†   (source)
  • 52 EURIPIDES LEADER.†   (source)
  • 42 EURIPIDES MEDEA.†   (source)
  • 6 EURIPIDES ATTENDANT.†   (source)
  • 64 EURIPIDES MESSENGER.†   (source)
  • 76 EURIPIDES MEDEA.†   (source)
  • 20 EURIPIDES MEDEA.†   (source)
  • 38 EURIPIDES AEGEUS.†   (source)
  • 40 EURIPIDES MEDEA.†   (source)
  • I saved thee Let thine own Greeks be witness, every one That sailed on Argo saved thee, sent alone To yoke with yokes the bulls of fiery breath, And sow that Acre of the Lords of Death; And mine own ancient Serpent, who did keep The Golden Fleece, the eyes that knew not sleep, And shining coils, him also did I smite Dead for thy sake, and lifted up the light 28 EURIPIDES That bade thee live.†   (source)
  • 32 EURIPIDES LEADER.†   (source)
  • 8o EURIPIDES CHORUS.†   (source)
  • 50 EURIPIDES Enter JASON.†   (source)
  • 34 EURIPIDES JASON.†   (source)
  • 70 EURIPIDES Others.†   (source)
  • 44 EURIPIDES MEDEA.†   (source)
  • My thoughts have roamed a cloudy land, And heard a fierier music fall Than woman's heart should stir withal : And yet some Muse majestical, Unknown, hath hold of woman's hand, Seeking for Wisdom not in all : 62 EURIPIDES A feeble seed, a scattered band, Thou yet shalt find in lonely places, Not dead amongst us, nor our faces Turned alway from the Muses' call.†   (source)
  • 58 EURIPIDES ATTENDANT.†   (source)
  • Among the handmaids was a woman old And grey, who deemed, I think, that Pan had hold 66 EURIPIDES Upon her, or some spirit, and raised a Keen Awakening shout; till through her lips was seen A white foam crawling, and her eyeballs back Twisted, and all her face dead pale for lack Of life : and while that old dame called, the cry Turned strangely to its opposite, to die Sobbing.†   (source)
  • 72 EURIPIDES JASON.†   (source)
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