 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...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, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...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 pages
...Thebes or Troy, or at least something that happened in those two ages ; which was worn so threadbare by all the epic poets, and even by tradition itself of...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...already known to all the audienee; and the people, so soon <o ever they heard the name of tKdipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father by mistake, and eommitted ineest with his mother, before the playi that they were now to hear of a great... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...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 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1859 - 482 pages
...already known to ail Che audience ; and the people, so soon is over they heard the name of CEdipus, knew, as well 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... | |
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Oedipus, knew as well as the poet that he had killed his father by a mistake and committed incest with his mother before the play; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius... 
