The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton, Volume 1 |
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... told by an idiot . " In the very first introductory lines there is a repetition of the fame fentiment over and over again ( a fault indeed too common in our author ) befides a moft glaring incon- fiftency in Mercury's declaring ( v . 13 ...
... told by an idiot . " In the very first introductory lines there is a repetition of the fame fentiment over and over again ( a fault indeed too common in our author ) befides a moft glaring incon- fiftency in Mercury's declaring ( v . 13 ...
Halaman 46
... told fo . 20 You leave me ere the bed , in which you lay , Could well grow warm : you came at midnight to me ; And now you're gone again .--- Say , is this kind ? MERC . I will approach and speak to her , and fecond My father in his ...
... told fo . 20 You leave me ere the bed , in which you lay , Could well grow warm : you came at midnight to me ; And now you're gone again .--- Say , is this kind ? MERC . I will approach and speak to her , and fecond My father in his ...
Halaman 47
... told you all .--- This , if I had not lov'd you to th ' extreme , I had not done . MERC . ( Afide . ) So - is't not as I faid ? See , how this stroking cheers her ! JUP . I must now 40 Return from hence in fecret , left the troops ...
... told you all .--- This , if I had not lov'd you to th ' extreme , I had not done . MERC . ( Afide . ) So - is't not as I faid ? See , how this stroking cheers her ! JUP . I must now 40 Return from hence in fecret , left the troops ...
Halaman 52
... told you the plain fact , you cannot Make me recant my story . AMPH . Why , you villain , -- . 10 Dare you affirm , that you are now at home , And here too , at this very time ? Sos . ' Tis true though . AMPH . A plague confound you ...
... told you the plain fact , you cannot Make me recant my story . AMPH . Why , you villain , -- . 10 Dare you affirm , that you are now at home , And here too , at this very time ? Sos . ' Tis true though . AMPH . A plague confound you ...
Halaman 53
Titus Maccius Plautus. Sos . I have told your Ten times already .--- I'm at home , I say ; And I , --- d'ye mark me ? I , that felf - fame Sofia , Am here with you .--- What think you ? do I speak 30 Plain enough now , and to the purpofe ...
Titus Maccius Plautus. Sos . I have told your Ten times already .--- I'm at home , I say ; And I , --- d'ye mark me ? I , that felf - fame Sofia , Am here with you .--- What think you ? do I speak 30 Plain enough now , and to the purpofe ...
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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...