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... Plautus ; from the only play of Plautus which was then in English . What can be more probable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inac- cessible ? Whether he knew the ...
... Plautus ; from the only play of Plautus which was then in English . What can be more probable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inac- cessible ? Whether he knew the ...
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... Plautus , unless it shall be thought better to reckon Plautus with Terence , to make the third and high- est age of the Latin comedy , which may properly be called the new comedy , especially with regard to Terence , who was the friend ...
... Plautus , unless it shall be thought better to reckon Plautus with Terence , to make the third and high- est age of the Latin comedy , which may properly be called the new comedy , especially with regard to Terence , who was the friend ...
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... Plautus and Te- rence , the only authors of whom we are in possession , give us a fuller notion of the real nature of their comedy , with respect , at least , to their own times , than can be received from names and terms , from which ...
... Plautus and Te- rence , the only authors of whom we are in possession , give us a fuller notion of the real nature of their comedy , with respect , at least , to their own times , than can be received from names and terms , from which ...
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... Plautus is ingenious in his designs , happy in his conceptions , and fruitful of invention . He has , however , according to Ho- race , some low jocularities ; and those smart sayings , which made the vulgar laugh , made him be pitied ...
... Plautus is ingenious in his designs , happy in his conceptions , and fruitful of invention . He has , however , according to Ho- race , some low jocularities ; and those smart sayings , which made the vulgar laugh , made him be pitied ...
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... style , he descends without meanness ; when he attempts the sublime , he is elevated without obscurity ; and no man • Preface to Plautus . Paris , 1684 . has ever had the art of blending all the different 382 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
... style , he descends without meanness ; when he attempts the sublime , he is elevated without obscurity ; and no man • Preface to Plautus . Paris , 1684 . has ever had the art of blending all the different 382 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
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Seite 90 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Seite 67 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Seite 67 - Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear ; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Seite 72 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Seite 153 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Seite 174 - Cordelia to perish in a just cause, contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles.
Seite 73 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Seite 110 - Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...
Seite 440 - My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Seite 124 - Every man's performances, to be rightly estimated, must be compared with the state of the age in which he lived, and with his own particular opportunities...