Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine : Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence : Orations and Speeches : and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews : Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait, Band 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... Plautus , if not in the same degraded condition , was yet in such humble circumstan- ces as to be compelled to labor at a mill for his daily bread . These were among the fathers , ( if we do not abuse the word ) of Roman literature ...
... Plautus , if not in the same degraded condition , was yet in such humble circumstan- ces as to be compelled to labor at a mill for his daily bread . These were among the fathers , ( if we do not abuse the word ) of Roman literature ...
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... Plautus and Terence are professed translations of Menander , Philemon , and other Greek writers how free or literal need not be mentioned here . * In a word , if those heroic ballads or metrical chronicles , in which Niebuhr supposes ...
... Plautus and Terence are professed translations of Menander , Philemon , and other Greek writers how free or literal need not be mentioned here . * In a word , if those heroic ballads or metrical chronicles , in which Niebuhr supposes ...
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... Plautus - Cæsar complimented Terence , as in style , at least , a successful imitator of Menander , and we may judge , from a well known passage of Velleius Paterculus , * [ De Off . 1. i . c . 29. elegans , urbanum , ingeniosum ...
... Plautus - Cæsar complimented Terence , as in style , at least , a successful imitator of Menander , and we may judge , from a well known passage of Velleius Paterculus , * [ De Off . 1. i . c . 29. elegans , urbanum , ingeniosum ...
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... Plautus and Terence . The former was the son of a freedman , and was born at Sarsina , a town of Umbria , about A. U. C. 525. The latter , as has been already mentioned , was a Carthaginian slave . The Andria , his first comedy , was ...
... Plautus and Terence . The former was the son of a freedman , and was born at Sarsina , a town of Umbria , about A. U. C. 525. The latter , as has been already mentioned , was a Carthaginian slave . The Andria , his first comedy , was ...
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... Plautus and Terence . The very names of some of their favourite characters will not bear mentioning in decent company , and there are passages , in which their low manners and practices are painted in such strong colours , as to be ...
... Plautus and Terence . The very names of some of their favourite characters will not bear mentioning in decent company , and there are passages , in which their low manners and practices are painted in such strong colours , as to be ...
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