The Quarterly Review, Band 250William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 |
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... Plautus and Terence seemed to give the best clue to the dramatic quality of his work . Nevertheless , it was clearly impossible to have any real acquaintance with Menander under those conditions . We have only to consider the plight of ...
... Plautus and Terence seemed to give the best clue to the dramatic quality of his work . Nevertheless , it was clearly impossible to have any real acquaintance with Menander under those conditions . We have only to consider the plight of ...
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... Plautus and Terence are about as much better than he was as Molière is better than they . ' One challenges instantly the statement that the fragments are ' generally agreed ' to be disappointing . It is true that we cannot easily find ...
... Plautus and Terence are about as much better than he was as Molière is better than they . ' One challenges instantly the statement that the fragments are ' generally agreed ' to be disappointing . It is true that we cannot easily find ...
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... Plautus he is superior not in degree but in kind . The plays of Plautus probably bore about as much relation to the Greek original as a modern musical comedy does to the play from which it is adapted . Plautus is full of life and fun ...
... Plautus he is superior not in degree but in kind . The plays of Plautus probably bore about as much relation to the Greek original as a modern musical comedy does to the play from which it is adapted . Plautus is full of life and fun ...
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... Plautus is the clown who , though he may have had one , at least never displayed an aching heart . Joy and sorrow are equally funny when seen through Plautus ' eyes . The laughter of Menander is merry enough , but tears are always ...
... Plautus is the clown who , though he may have had one , at least never displayed an aching heart . Joy and sorrow are equally funny when seen through Plautus ' eyes . The laughter of Menander is merry enough , but tears are always ...
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... Plautus . Even in Terence , however , there are curious aberrations of which the piece of moral obtuseness cited from the Eunuchus is an example . It seems at least possible that Terence derived his broad humanity from Menander . He ...
... Plautus . Even in Terence , however , there are curious aberrations of which the piece of moral obtuseness cited from the Eunuchus is an example . It seems at least possible that Terence derived his broad humanity from Menander . He ...
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Seite 274 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Seite 143 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Seite 133 - I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Seite 134 - Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illuc, unde negant redire quemquam. At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis : Tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis.
Seite 132 - Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Seite 88 - If a spirit of rapacious covetousness, desecrating all the humanities of life, has been the besetting sin of England for the last century and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by virtue of philosophic phrases, to propose a Utopia to consist only of WEALTH and TOIL, this has been the breathless business of enfranchised England for the last twelve years, until we are startled from our voracious...
Seite 410 - If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine— a friend— or being dry— Or lest we should be, by and by— Or any other reason why!
Seite 139 - Chommoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum, Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias.
Seite 79 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Seite 133 - IVCVNDVM, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore. di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit, atque id sincere dicat et ex animo, ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.