The Dramatic Works of Jean Racine: A Metrical English Version, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... never reduced to any coherent and permanent shape . Like the younger poet , Boileau discontinued all other literary work for many years after his appointment to this office . The regularity of Racine's married life was all that his ...
... never reduced to any coherent and permanent shape . Like the younger poet , Boileau discontinued all other literary work for many years after his appointment to this office . The regularity of Racine's married life was all that his ...
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... never cease , You , to shed blood , and I , to weep in vain ? Will you grant nothing to a mother's tears ? Daughter , restrain your brother , if you can ; Erst was your love the only check he own'd . ANTIGONE . Ah ! if his soul is deaf ...
... never cease , You , to shed blood , and I , to weep in vain ? Will you grant nothing to a mother's tears ? Daughter , restrain your brother , if you can ; Erst was your love the only check he own'd . ANTIGONE . Ah ! if his soul is deaf ...
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... never will consent to peace ; Well know I how to make the venom work , ' Till they would rather die than be at one . Brief may be enmity with other foes , But when the bonds of Nature have been snapt , Nothing can re - unite the sunder ...
... never will consent to peace ; Well know I how to make the venom work , ' Till they would rather die than be at one . Brief may be enmity with other foes , But when the bonds of Nature have been snapt , Nothing can re - unite the sunder ...
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... never be appeas'd ; ' Tis not his pride , it is himself I hate . Relentless is our mutual enmity ; ' Tis not a twelvemonth's work , ' twas born with us , And its dark venom , Creon , reach'd our hearts As soon as life itself . We were ...
... never be appeas'd ; ' Tis not his pride , it is himself I hate . Relentless is our mutual enmity ; ' Tis not a twelvemonth's work , ' twas born with us , And its dark venom , Creon , reach'd our hearts As soon as life itself . We were ...
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... never end , Than Polynices should return with peace ; Let others boast her charms , I scorn them then ; War's honours please me , so we lose not you . Thebes by my mouth implores you , crush us not Beneath the heel of that ferocious ...
... never end , Than Polynices should return with peace ; Let others boast her charms , I scorn them then ; War's honours please me , so we lose not you . Thebes by my mouth implores you , crush us not Beneath the heel of that ferocious ...
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