Comedies of Plautus: Amphitruo, Amphitryon. Miles Gloriosus. CaptiviT. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769 |
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... gone out to fup- per at the end of the second act , and to have returned at four the next morning , to hear the rest of the play . See her whole note refuted and ridiculed by Mr. Colman . V. 141. ] This line is inclosed in crotches ...
... gone out to fup- per at the end of the second act , and to have returned at four the next morning , to hear the rest of the play . See her whole note refuted and ridiculed by Mr. Colman . V. 141. ] This line is inclosed in crotches ...
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... gone this inftant , I shall give you him , fays mentiris nunc jam— " Now you lye . " I have en- deavoured to preferve the equivoque by ufing the word want , as much as to fay , in one fenfe , you want ( OUGHT TO HAVE ) a beating , and ...
... gone this inftant , I shall give you him , fays mentiris nunc jam— " Now you lye . " I have en- deavoured to preferve the equivoque by ufing the word want , as much as to fay , in one fenfe , you want ( OUGHT TO HAVE ) a beating , and ...
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... gone don't this inftaut . Sos . Would you then defire To drive me from my home , when I am just Arriv'd here from abroad ?. MERC . Is this your home ? Sos . It is I fay . Adveniffe familiares dicito . V. 274. ] Sof . Merc . Nefcio quàm ...
... gone don't this inftaut . Sos . Would you then defire To drive me from my home , when I am just Arriv'd here from abroad ?. MERC . Is this your home ? Sos . It is I fay . Adveniffe familiares dicito . V. 274. ] Sof . Merc . Nefcio quàm ...
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... gone rather .--- Heav'ns have mercy . on me ! Where did I lofe myself ? where was I chang'd ? Why did I lofe my form ? or was I haply So thoughtless as to leave myself behind here ? For certainly this fellow is poffeft 415 Of my whole ...
... gone rather .--- Heav'ns have mercy . on me ! Where did I lofe myself ? where was I chang'd ? Why did I lofe my form ? or was I haply So thoughtless as to leave myself behind here ? For certainly this fellow is poffeft 415 Of my whole ...
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... gone , you know the full time of your reckoning.- I must away hence of neceffity : - Whatever child is born , you'll bring it up . ALC . My lord , what business can it be , that you 5 V. 6. Bring it up . ] The Latin word is tollito ...
... gone , you know the full time of your reckoning.- I must away hence of neceffity : - Whatever child is born , you'll bring it up . ALC . My lord , what business can it be , that you 5 V. 6. Bring it up . ] The Latin word is tollito ...
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Afide Alcmena allufion AMPH Amphitryon ancients anſwer ARIST aſk Author Becauſe Befides beſt BLEPH Blepharo BRAGGARD CAPTAIN buſineſs captive COLMAN comedies defire door Echard expreffion facrifice faid fame father feem fenfe fervant fhall fignifies fince firſt flave follow fome foon fpeak ftill fuch fuppofed fure give Gods heav'n Hegio himſelf houfe houſe humour Jove juft Jupiter juſt leaſt loft mafter means MERC Mercury miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf obferved occafion original paffage Palaftrio Parafite perfon Periplectomenes PHIL Philocomafium Philocrates Plautus play pleaſe pleaſure PLEU prefent preferve Prithee Prologue purpoſe PYRG rafcal reafon refpect ſay Sceledrus SCENE ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſlave Sofia ſpeak ſuppoſe Teleboans tell Terence thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tranflation troth TYND Tyndarus underſtand uſed whofe wife word yourſelf ΙΟ
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Seite 100 - 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...
Seite 16 - It began with Jupiter's falling in love out of a peep-hole in the clouds, and ended with the birth of Hercules.
Seite 263 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, 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...
Seite 16 - Amphitrion's taylor and cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of...
Seite 49 - Be with yon soldier present, as if absent. All night and day love me : still long for me : Dream, ponder still " on " me : wish, hope for me, Delight in me : be all in all with me : Give your whole heart, for mine's all yours, to me.
Seite 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...
Seite 13 - Having translated, call'd COMMORIENTES. In the beginning of the Grecian play There is a youth, who rends a girl perforce From a procurer : and this incident, Untouch'd by Plautus, render'd word for word, Has our bard interwoven with his Brothers — The new piece which we represent to-day. Say then if this be theft, or honest use Of what remained unoccupied.
Seite 86 - Of ev'ry thing ; but arc not. These I follow ; Not for their sport and laughter, but for gain To laugh with them, and wonder at their parts : Whate'er they say, I praise it; if again They contradict, I praise that too : does any Deny ? I too deny : affirm ? I too Affirm : and in a word, I've brought myself To say, unsay, swear, and forswear, at pleasure: And that is now the best of all professions.
Seite iii - 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.
Seite 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.