| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pàgines
...already known to all the audience : and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father...plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius : so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pulled out, and speak a hundred... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pàgines
...already known to all the audience : and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father...plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius : so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pulled out, and speak a hundred... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pàgines
...already known to all the audience ; and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of (Edipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father by mistake, and committed incest with his mother, before the play; that they were now to hear of a great... | |
| 1821 - 408 pàgines
...already known to all the audience ; and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father...with his mother, before the play : that they were not to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Lai us : so that they sat with a yawning... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pàgines
...already known to all the audience ; and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as .the poet, that he had killed his...with his mother, before the play : that they were not to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius : so that they sat with a yawning... | |
| 1821 - 404 pàgines
...his father by a mistake, and committed incest with his mother, before the play : that they were not to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius : so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pulled out, and speak a hundred... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - 1827 - 368 pàgines
...well as L the poet that he had killed his father by mistake, and committed incest with his mother; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius*." It was quite different, however, in those new inventions which formed the subjects of comedies, and... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pàgines
...already known to all the audience ; and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Q£dipus, knew, as well as the poet, that he had killed his father by a mistake, and committed incest with bis mother, before the play ; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pàgines
...already known to all the audience; and the people, so soon as over they heard the name of [Edipus, knew, as well as the poet, that he had killed his father hy a mistake, and comm,tted incest with his mother, hefore the play ; that they were now to hear of... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pàgines
...as the poet, that he had killed his father hy a mistake, and commuted incest with his mother, hefore the play ; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and tha ghost of Laius : so that they sate with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with... | |
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