Coloneus

As after the most aweinspiring death known to literature the _Oedipus Coloneus_ closes on the note of acquiescent peace --

Milton John Cann Bailey 1897

Perhaps "Oedipus Coloneus" is nearest approach among Greek tragedies to the elevation of

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

Cf. Sophocles's _OEdipus Coloneus_, 880: [Greek text] ( 'In a just cause the weak vanquishes the strong,' Jebb), and 2 _Henry VI_, iii.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

_Henry VI_ (pt. ii.): parallel in the _OEdipus Coloneus_ of Sophocles with a passage in, 13 _n_ publication of a first draft with the title of _The first part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster_, 59 performed by Lord Strange's men, 59 revision of the play, 60 the poet's coadjutors in the revision, 60

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Oedipus Coloneus had Antigone, and King Lear had the king's fool and loyal Kent, and Prometheus had visitors betimes, who brought him balm of sympathy; but Job's servants will not obey him, and little children make sport of him, and his wife turns away from him, and will not hear his sobbing words, nor hear him as he calls the names of their children whom he loved.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

The Oedipus Coloneus, the Lear -- the venerable victim of winter winds and men's ingratitude -- was transformed in a moment into an elderly Jeremy Diddler, lined with Lord Foppington.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

The great Athenian poet Sophocles began his tragedy of "Oedipus Coloneus" with showing the blind old king leaning on Antigone's arm, and asking –

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

Coloneus 'with showing the blind old king leaning on Antigone's arm, and asking --

A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It "fills the thickets with honey;" and if in the often-quoted -- just because it is _not_ characteristic of Greek literature -- passage of the Coloneus, a deeper sentiment is shown, that feeling is dependent on association of the bird-voices with deeply pathetic circumstances.

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

Oedipus Coloneus at 90, we have no instance of any great historian, except Livy, attempting to write at a very old age, and then Livy rambled into inordinate diffuseness.

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852