...tear-moistenM eyes Attendant on the virgins left the place, But in short space we stopp'd, we backwards turn'd Our eyes ; the man was no where to be found ; He was...flames Thick flashing from the thunders of high Jove Consum'd him, nor the tempest from the sea Then raging wild ; but haply by the gods Borne thence, or...

...circumstances of (Edipus1 death. In short space we stopp'd ; we backwards turn'd Our eyes. The man was nowhere to be found! He was not ; but we saw the king alone....terror struck, At something horrible to human sight. But by what fate he died no mortal man, Save Theseus, can declare. For not the flames, Thick flashing...

...was nowhere to be found! He was not; but we saw the king alone. He stood, and o'er his face his hand> he spread Shading his eyes; as if with terror struck, At something horrible to human sight. Put by what fate he died no mortal man, Save Theseus, can declare For not the flames, Thick flashing...

...savage, who flies from his lonely shore for protection, and the royal sufferer of Sophocles, — " He stood ; and o'er his face his hands he spread,...terror struck At something horrible to human sight ;" in short, from the peasant, " who woos terror to delight him," to the silken baron of civilisation,...

...savage, who flies from his lonely shore for protection, and the royal sufferer of Sophocles, — " He stood ; and o'er his face his hands he spread,...terror struck At something horrible to human sight ;" in short, from the peasant, " who woos terror to delight him," to the silken baron of civilisation,...

...backwards turn'd Our eyes; the man was no where to be found; He was not; but we saw the king [Theseus] alone; He stood, and o'er his face his hands he spread...with terror struck At something horrible to human sight.2 The entire speech (by one of the citizens of Colonus) is suggestive, for it shows Oedipus becoming...