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Identifier: internationallib02lang (find matches)
Title: The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York Merrill and Baker
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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our mouth against the bit,Be wise in time; kick not against the spurs;Remembering Princes are shrewd taskmasters.Chorus — Beware thyself, bewaring me; Remembering that, too sharply stirred,The spurrer need beware the spurred;As thou of me; whose single wordShall rouse the City — yea, the veryStones you walk upon, in thunderGathering oer your head, to buryThee and thine Adultress under!u^Sgisthus — Raven, that with croaking jawsUnorphean, undivine,After you no City draws; And if any vengeance, mineUpon your withered shoulders —Chorus — Thine! Who daring not to strike the blowThy worse than woman craft designed,To worse than woman —^Egisthus — Soldiers, ho! Clytemnestra —Softly, good iEgisthus, softly; let the sword that has so deepDrunk of righteous Retribution now within the scabbard sleep!And if Nemesis be sated with the blood already spilt,Even so let us, nor carry lawful Justice into Guilt.Sheathe your sword; dismiss your spears; and you, Oldmen, your howling cease,
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KING OKI HITSFrom a painting by K. Tescshendorff THE DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF KING (F.DIITS. 613 And, ere ill blood come to running, each unto his home in peaRecognizing what is done for done indeed, as done it is.And husbanding your scanty breath to pray that nothing more amiss.Farewell. Meanwhile, you and I, JSgisthus, shall deliberate,When the storm is blowing under, how to settle House and State. THE DOWNFALL AM) DEATH OF KING (EDIPUS. By SOPHOCLES. (Version of Edward Fitzgerald.) (Sophocles : A famous Greek tragic poet; born at Colonus, near Athens,probably in b.c 495. He received a careful education, and at his first appear-ance as a tragic poet, when only twenty-seven years old, gained a victory overthe veteran ^Eschylus. From that time until extreme old age he maintained hispreeminence, obtaining the first prize more than twenty times. He also tookpart in political affairs, and during the Samian war (b.c 440) was one of theten generals acting jointly with Pericles. Of the one hun

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