The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton, Volume 1 |
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Halaman 4
... Sofia as in the Latin and French , which in the English is poftponed to the opening of the second act . Befides , he brings in not only Mercury and Night , but Phoebus also and Jupiter , for no other purpose , as it fhould feem , but ...
... Sofia as in the Latin and French , which in the English is poftponed to the opening of the second act . Befides , he brings in not only Mercury and Night , but Phoebus also and Jupiter , for no other purpose , as it fhould feem , but ...
Halaman 7
... Sofia and Mercury , might give it fair title to this appellation , even according to the modern ac- ceptation of the term ; as it is not neceffary that a tragedy should end unhappily , or that any of the characters should come to an ...
... Sofia and Mercury , might give it fair title to this appellation , even according to the modern ac- ceptation of the term ; as it is not neceffary that a tragedy should end unhappily , or that any of the characters should come to an ...
Halaman 12
... Sofia , he who went from hence Together with Amphitryon to the army ; 145 150 The rest of the Commentators , if I am not mistaken , have all of them understood this paffage as meaning nothing more than fimply making a new play upon an ...
... Sofia , he who went from hence Together with Amphitryon to the army ; 145 150 The rest of the Commentators , if I am not mistaken , have all of them understood this paffage as meaning nothing more than fimply making a new play upon an ...
Halaman 15
... Sofia yonder comes , Amphitryon's flave : He's from the port , and bears him hitherward , A lanthorn in his hand : he makes for home , But I fhall drive him thence . --- So --- here he is ; And he will foon be knocking at the door . It ...
... Sofia yonder comes , Amphitryon's flave : He's from the port , and bears him hitherward , A lanthorn in his hand : he makes for home , But I fhall drive him thence . --- So --- here he is ; And he will foon be knocking at the door . It ...
Halaman 16
... Sofia in the fame manner . But I could not easily par- cury don the liberty the poet has taken of larding his play with not only indecent expreffions , but fuch grofs words as I don't think our mob would fuffer from a mountebank ...
... Sofia in the fame manner . But I could not easily par- cury don the liberty the poet has taken of larding his play with not only indecent expreffions , but fuch grofs words as I don't think our mob would fuffer from a mountebank ...
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Afide againſt Alcmena alfo allufion AMPH Amphitryon ancients anſwer ARIST aſk Author becauſe Befides beſt BLEPH Blepharo BRAGGARD CAPTAIN buſineſs captive COLMAN comedies door Echard expreffion facrifice faid fame father feem fenfe fervant fhall fhe's fignifies fince firſt flave follow fome foon ftand ftrange fuch fuppofe fure give Gods heav'n Hegio himſelf houfe houſe huſband inftant Jove Jupiter juſt leaſt loft mafter means MERC Mercury miſtreſs moft moſt muſt myſelf No-MAN obferved occafion original paffage Palaftrio PALESTRIO Parafite perfon PERIPLECTOMENES PHIL Philocomafium Philocrates Plautus play pleaſe pleaſure PLEU PLEUSIDES prefent preferve Prithee Prologue purpoſe PYRG racter reafon ſay Sceledrus SCENE ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſlave Sofia ſpeak Teleboans tell Terence thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tranflation troth TYND Tyndarus underſtand uſed wife word yourſelf ΙΟ
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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...