The Comedies of TerenceHarding and Wright, 1810 - 548 Seiten |
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... manner of our old writers , but by no means professing or intending a direct imitation of them , This first essay , conscious of its crudeness and inaccu- racy , but dubious whether it was worth while to endea- vour vour to give it a ...
... manner of our old writers , but by no means professing or intending a direct imitation of them , This first essay , conscious of its crudeness and inaccu- racy , but dubious whether it was worth while to endea- vour vour to give it a ...
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... perhaps such a trifle required , it ap peared to me the most plausible , as well as most simpl manner of accounting for it , to suppose that , in regard to the the original authors from whom the Comedies were ta- ken PREFACE . xxi.
... perhaps such a trifle required , it ap peared to me the most plausible , as well as most simpl manner of accounting for it , to suppose that , in regard to the the original authors from whom the Comedies were ta- ken PREFACE . xxi.
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... manner , as well as fea- tures , of my original . Some perhaps may think that , having once abandoned prose , I might have given still frcer scope to my imagination , and have introduced more strokes of poetry : but such criticks must ...
... manner , as well as fea- tures , of my original . Some perhaps may think that , having once abandoned prose , I might have given still frcer scope to my imagination , and have introduced more strokes of poetry : but such criticks must ...
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... , as well as to present the reader with some image of its effect in the representation , I have all along sub- joined , according to the modern manner , marginal notes notes of direction . For this practice I have , PREFACE . xxvii.
... , as well as to present the reader with some image of its effect in the representation , I have all along sub- joined , according to the modern manner , marginal notes notes of direction . For this practice I have , PREFACE . xxvii.
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... manner of com- mon conversation ; not falling entirely into the ease of ordinary discourse , which would be inartificial ; nor departing so far from nature , as to lose the excellence of imitation . 22 . The English reader will find ...
... manner of com- mon conversation ; not falling entirely into the ease of ordinary discourse , which would be inartificial ; nor departing so far from nature , as to lose the excellence of imitation . 22 . The English reader will find ...
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Andrian antient Antiphila Antipho Bacchis brother Chærea Char character Charinus Cher child Chre Chremes Clin Clinia Clit Clitipho comedy comes comic critick Crito Ctes Ctesipho D'ye know daughter Davus Demea Demipho Donatus Dorio Dromo Enter Esch Eschinus Eunuch Exeunt Exit fable father fear flutes gentleman Geta girl give Glycerium Gnat Gnatho Greek hear heav'n Hegio humour is't labour Lach Madam Dacier manner marry matter means Menander Mened Menedemus Micio mind mistress musick musick-girl Mysis Nausistrata ne'er never on't Pamphilus Parmeno passage Phad Phæd Phædria Phid Phidippus Philumena Phor Phormio piece Plautus play poet prithee prologue Pyth Pythias Roman SCENE Self-Tormentor servants shew Simo slave Sosia Sostrata speak Step-Mother suppose Syrus tell Terence Thais there's thing Thra Thraso to-day translation twas undone What's Wherefore wife woman word wretch young youth
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Seite 473 - It is said this sentence was received with an universal applause. There cannot be a greater argument of the general good understanding of a people, than a sudden consent to give their approbation of a sentiment which has no emotion in it. If it were spoken with never so great skill in the actor, the manner of uttering that sentence could have nothing in it which could strike any but people of the greatest humanity, nay people elegant and skilful in observations upon it. It is possible he might have...
Seite 15 - He takes this woman's death so nearly, what" If he himself had lov'd ? What would he feel For me, his father ? All these things, I thought, Were but the tokens and the offices Of a humane and tender disposition. In short, on his account, e'en I myself Attend the funeral, suspecting yet No harm.
Seite 272 - Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or long experience made some change in it ; And taught him, that those things he thought he knew He did not know, and what he held as best, In practice he threw by.
Seite 462 - ... every time the stage is empty; but every person who enters, though to others, makes it so; because he introduces a new business. Now the plots of their plays being narrow, and the persons few, one of their acts was written in a less compass than one of our well-wrought scenes; and yet they are often deficient even in this. To go no...
Seite 497 - Who ne'er so little from his game withheld, Turns head, and leaps up at his holder's throat. There is a way* of winning more by love, And urging of the modesty, than fear: Force works on servile natures, not the free. He that's compelled to goodness, may be good, But 'tis but for that fit; where others, drawn By softness and example, get a habit.
Seite 343 - I suppose this sum is scrap'd together For a Bride-Gift. Alack, how hard it is, That he, who is already poor, should still Throw in his mite, to swell the rich man's heap! What He scarce, ounce by ounce, from short allowance, Sorely defrauding his own appetite, Has spar'd, poor wretch! shall She sweep all at once, Unheeding with what labour it was got.
Seite 34 - Byr. Is there no faith in the affairs of men ? 'Tis an old saying, and a true one too, "Of all mankind each loves himself the best.
Seite 465 - Eunuch, when Laches, the .old man, enters by mistake into the house of Thais ; where, betwixt his exit and the entrance of Pythias, who comes to give ample relation of the disorders he has raised within, Parmeno, who was left upon the stage, has not above five lines to speak. C'est bien employer un temps si court...
Seite 356 - Ev'n then it most behoves to arm himself Against the coming storm : loss, danger, exile, Returning ever let him look to meet ; His son in fault, wife dead, or daughter sickAll common accidents, and may have happen'd ; That nothing should seem new or strange. But if Aught has fall'n out beyond his hopes, all that Let him account clear gain.
Seite 41 - To tell me yon inform'd them, that my daughter Was to be married to your son to-day: And therefore came I here, and fain would know Whether 'tis you or they have lost their wits. SIMO. A moment's hearing ; you shall be inform \l, What I request, and what you wish to know.