The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton, Volume 1 |
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Halaman vi
... reputation with 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 .
... reputation with 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 viii
... reader will be fenfible , that as many , if not more , which are equally admired , among our * It was thought proper to take that account of him , which was the most ancient . author's author's twenty plays , are to follow ; and it ( viii )
... reader will be fenfible , that as many , if not more , which are equally admired , among our * It was thought proper to take that account of him , which was the most ancient . author's author's twenty plays , are to follow ; and it ( viii )
Halaman x
... most fimple and leaft forced . It is true , indeed , there are fome paffages , the sense of which it is hardly poffible to determine , and of which we may almoft say with our author in his Panulus , or Carthaginian , Ifti quidem bercle ...
... most fimple and leaft forced . It is true , indeed , there are fome paffages , the sense of which it is hardly poffible to determine , and of which we may almoft say with our author in his Panulus , or Carthaginian , Ifti quidem bercle ...
Halaman xiv
... most concern is the little regard he has to probability . Instead of measuring the time by the duration of the action which ought to fill it up , he is thinking of nothing but the action itself , and often supposes * The feeming want of ...
... most concern is the little regard he has to probability . Instead of measuring the time by the duration of the action which ought to fill it up , he is thinking of nothing but the action itself , and often supposes * The feeming want of ...
Halaman 24
... most read more . p.48 . v . 63. for with read for . p . 110 , note , v . 32. for an readour . p . 153. v . 19. for SCE . read PAL . p . 154. v . 53. for the read her , p . 165. v . 24 . for her read his . p . 181. v . 143. read to my ...
... most read more . p.48 . v . 63. for with read for . p . 110 , note , v . 32. for an readour . p . 153. v . 19. for SCE . read PAL . p . 154. v . 53. for the read her , p . 165. v . 24 . for her read his . p . 181. v . 143. read to my ...
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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...