The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr1849 |
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... by spherical predominance ; drunkards , liars , and adulterers , by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in , by a divine thrusting on . " Act I. sc . 2 . I PH . Thou abhorrence , what lies dost thou ...
... by spherical predominance ; drunkards , liars , and adulterers , by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in , by a divine thrusting on . " Act I. sc . 2 . I PH . Thou abhorrence , what lies dost thou ...
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Ajax ancient appear bear behold bring called cause child Chorus coming consider Creon daughter dead death deed dreadful earth Edipus evil expression eyes fall fate father fear feel friends gain give gods gone Greeks hand hast thou hath hear heard Hermann hither hold honour hope Jocasta Jove king land laws least light live longer look means mind mortal mother murder Musgrave nature never observes once Orestes pain passage perished person Philoctetes play possessed present receive sayest seems sense speak spirit stranger suffer surely taken tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thyself Tiresias translation truth turn Ulysses unhappy utter whole wilt wish woman wretched Wunder
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