Comedies of Plautus: Amphitruo, Amphitryon. Miles Gloriosus. CaptiviT. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769 |
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Halaman iv
... the author of the Jealous Wife , or the joint authors of the Clandeftine Marriage . I am , Dear SIR , Your most affectionate Humble Servant , BONNELL THORNTON . PREFACE . I HAVE been induced to publish these two DEDICATION .
... the author of the Jealous Wife , or the joint authors of the Clandeftine Marriage . I am , Dear SIR , Your most affectionate Humble Servant , BONNELL THORNTON . PREFACE . I HAVE been induced to publish these two DEDICATION .
Halaman v
Titus Maccius Plautus. PREFACE . I HAVE been induced to publish these two volumes of my intended translation of the whole of PLAUTUS's comedies , in order to try how far fuch an attempt may meet with appro- bation . The fuccefs of Mr ...
Titus Maccius Plautus. PREFACE . I HAVE been induced to publish these two volumes of my intended translation of the whole of PLAUTUS's comedies , in order to try how far fuch an attempt may meet with appro- bation . The fuccefs of Mr ...
Halaman x
... these I should happen to be mistaken , I can only plead in excufe , that I find the com- mentators as much puzzled as myself ; and I cannot help frequently crying out , after having confulted them , Incertior fum multò quàm dudum . TER ...
... these I should happen to be mistaken , I can only plead in excufe , that I find the com- mentators as much puzzled as myself ; and I cannot help frequently crying out , after having confulted them , Incertior fum multò quàm dudum . TER ...
Halaman xi
... These are in prose ; and how little foever I may appear to go beyond them in other points , I have at least one confiderable advantage over them , from the new and elegant mode of translation in familiar blank verse , which Mr , Colman ...
... These are in prose ; and how little foever I may appear to go beyond them in other points , I have at least one confiderable advantage over them , from the new and elegant mode of translation in familiar blank verse , which Mr , Colman ...
Halaman xii
... these his seem- ing defects , I shall extract part of what is faid on this point by M. Gaeudeville , in his preface to a translation of our author's plays . " Plautus ( fays he ) like all great men , is not without his exceptions . He ...
... these his seem- ing defects , I shall extract part of what is faid on this point by M. Gaeudeville , in his preface to a translation of our author's plays . " Plautus ( fays he ) like all great men , is not without his exceptions . He ...
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Halaman 96 - Where either I must live, or bear no life; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence...
Halaman 259 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Halaman 12 - It began with Jupiter's falling in love out of a peep-hole in the clouds, and ended with the birth of Hercules.
Halaman 12 - I could not easily pardon the liberty the poet has taken of larding his play with, not only indecent expressions, but such gross words, as I don't think our mob would suffer from a mountebank.
Halaman 45 - Be with yon soldier present, as if absent. All night and day love me : still long for me : Dream, ponder still " on " me : wish, hope for me, Delight in me : be all in all with me : Give your whole heart, for mine's all yours, to me.
Halaman 9 - Having translated, call'd COMMORIENTES. In the beginning of the Grecian play There is a youth, who rends a girl perforce From a procurer : and this incident, Untouch'd by Plautus, render'd word for word, Has our bard interwoven with his Brothers — The new piece which we represent to-day. Say then if this be theft, or honest use Of what remained unoccupied.
Halaman 82 - Of ev'ry thing ; but arc not. These I follow ; Not for their sport and laughter, but for gain To laugh with them, and wonder at their parts : Whate'er they say, I praise it; if again They contradict, I praise that too : does any Deny ? I too deny : affirm ? I too Affirm : and in a word, I've brought myself To say, unsay, swear, and forswear, at pleasure: And that is now the best of all professions.
Halaman 283 - For when my father is informed of this, And learns how well your heart has been inclin'd Both to his son and to himself, he'll never Prove such a niggard, but in gratitude He will reward you with your liberty ; And I, if I return, with all my power Will urge him the more readily to do it. For by your aid, your courtesy, your courage, Wisdom and prudence, you have been the means Of my return to...