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He praised Corneille for not bringing that learned and reverend divine Tiresias on the stage in the tragedy of Oedipus. The omission, Collier owned, spoiled the dramatic effect of the piece: but the holy function was much too solemn to be played with. Nay, incredible as it may seem, he thought it improper in the laity to sneer at Presbyterian preachers.
There came up the soul of the Theban Tiresias having a golden sceptre. Purposely he changes the word for soul to the masculine, to show that it was Tiresias. And after him I described the mighty Heracles, his phantom I say; but as for himself he hath joy at the banquet among the deathless gods.
He was one of the first to appreciate Paradise Lost, and to commend it in some admirable lines. One couplet is exceedingly beautiful, in its reference to the author's blindness: "Just Heaven, thee like Tiresias to requite, Rewards with prophecy thy loss of sight." His poems, written in the "snatched leisure" of an active political life, bear marks of haste, and are very unequal.
When Tiresias announced to him, then, that there was a man who would undertake to find Lygia, he hurried with all speed to the house of Petronius; and barely had he finished saluting his uncle, when he inquired for the man. "We shall see him at once, Eunice knows him," said Petronius. "She will come this moment to arrange the folds of my toga, and will give nearer information concerning him."
I do not stand alone. I had the example of Tiresias and of Caeneus; your gibes touch them as well as me. Mi. And did you like being a man best, or receiving the addresses of Pericles? Cock. Ha! the question that Tiresias paid so dearly for answering! Mi. Never mind, then, Euripides has settled the point; he says he would rather bear the shock of battle thrice Than once the pangs of labour. Cock.
Tiresias had but to take his heaven-given staff in his hand, when, straightway, such a divinity entered into the staff that it both saw for him with divine eyes, and heard for him with divine ears, and then led him and directed him, and never once in all his after journeys let him go off the right way.
Thus saying, Tiresias, leaning on Manto, hobbled to the poop of the vessel, and exclaiming aloud, 'Behold the mighty seal of Dis, whereon is inscribed the word the Titans fear, the gates immediately flew open, revealing the gigantic form of the Titan Porphyrin, whose head touched the vault of the mighty cavern, although he was up to his waist in the waters of the river.
Early in the contest Eteocles consulted the soothsayer Tiresias as to the issue. Tiresias in his youth had by chance seen Minerva bathing. The goddess in her wrath deprived him of his sight, but afterwards relenting gave him in compensation the knowledge of future events.
Never was there a Mercury equal to the Abbe, but, do look at that old man to the left, he is one of the most remarkable persons of the age." "What! he with the small features, and comely countenance, considering his years?" "The same," said Hamilton; "it is the notorious Choisi. You know that he is the modern Tiresias, and has been a woman as well as man." "How do you mean?"
But that indeed is the reason that I know it so well: For, Jack, I have had abundant cause, when I have looked into myself, by way of comparison with the other sex, to conclude that a bashful man has a good deal of the soul of a woman; and so, like Tiresias, can tell what they think, and what they drive at, as well as themselves. The modest ones and I, particularly, are pretty much upon a par.
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