The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton, Volume 1 |
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Halaman 7
... I'll first premise , Then tell the argument of this our tragedy . Why are your brows contracted ? Is't becaufe A tragedy I call'd it ? I'm a god , And I will change it , if it be your pleasure ; I will convert it from a tragedy ' 55 ба ...
... I'll first premise , Then tell the argument of this our tragedy . Why are your brows contracted ? Is't becaufe A tragedy I call'd it ? I'm a god , And I will change it , if it be your pleasure ; I will convert it from a tragedy ' 55 ба ...
Halaman 18
... I'll tell My story to my lady . I'll proceed now T'obey my mafter's orders , for which purpose I'll take me home . MERC . Ah , ha ! he's coming hither : 145 I'll meet him then . I muft not let him enter Within the doors to day : but ...
... I'll tell My story to my lady . I'll proceed now T'obey my mafter's orders , for which purpose I'll take me home . MERC . Ah , ha ! he's coming hither : 145 I'll meet him then . I muft not let him enter Within the doors to day : but ...
Halaman 25
... I'll pay you For your vile deeds and speeches . Come but hither , You'll find your ruin . Şos . Where are those gallants , So loth to lye alone ? --- A rare night this , To have their penny - worths of their doxies . This fellow hits my ...
... I'll pay you For your vile deeds and speeches . Come but hither , You'll find your ruin . Şos . Where are those gallants , So loth to lye alone ? --- A rare night this , To have their penny - worths of their doxies . This fellow hits my ...
Halaman 26
... I'll have sport with him . Sos . I'm ruin'd : 186 How my teeth chatter ! fure he's pofted here To give me a reception with his fifts . Troth he takes pity on me ; and because My mafter now has made me keep awake , He'll lull me with his ...
... I'll have sport with him . Sos . I'm ruin'd : 186 How my teeth chatter ! fure he's pofted here To give me a reception with his fifts . Troth he takes pity on me ; and because My mafter now has made me keep awake , He'll lull me with his ...
Halaman 31
... I'll feem as valiant as I can , that he 246 250 May keep hands off me . ( advances towards the door ) MERC . You , Sir , whither go you ? You there , that carry Vulcan in your horn ? Sos . Who made you an examiner ? you , who bone Men ...
... I'll feem as valiant as I can , that he 246 250 May keep hands off me . ( advances towards the door ) MERC . You , Sir , whither go you ? You there , that carry Vulcan in your horn ? Sos . Who made you an examiner ? you , who bone Men ...
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Halaman 262 - 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 16 - 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 49 - Be with yon soldier present, as if absent : All night and day love me : still long for me : Dream, ponder still 'on.
Halaman 16 - I was almost squeezed to death. But if their operas are thus delightful, their comedies are, in as high a degree, ridiculous. They have but one...
Halaman 16 - It began with Jupiter's falling in love out of a peep-hole in the clouds, and ended with the birth of Hercules. But what was most pleasant, was the use Jupiter made of his metamorphosis; for you no sooner saw him under the figure of Amphitrion, but instead of flying to Alcmena with the raptures Mr.
Halaman v - ... of this present undertaking, I shall never repent my having dipt in ink, since it gave me an opportunity of cultivating a social as well as literary connection with you. " Instead of prefixing your name to this work, with the distant air of a dedication, I wished to have had it coupled along with mine in the title-page ; I wanted you as a comes jucundus, an agreeable companion, in this new, unbeaten track of translation, which you have so happily struck out before me.
Halaman 18 - ... like spears and lances at me. Well, the greatest plague of a serving-man is to be hired to some great lord ! They care not what drudgery they put upon us, while they lie lolling at their ease abed, and stretch their lazy limbs, in expectation of the whore which we are fetching for them.
Halaman 16 - Amphitrion's taylor and cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of...
Halaman 335 - PHIL. He fays what is not true. STAL. Or you or I do.— Your father gave you, when a child, a flave Of four years old for your own ufe and fervice. PHIL. What was his name ? — If what you fay is true, Tell me his name.
Halaman 100 - I have garner'd up my heart ; 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...