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... thing in this infancy of com- edy was excellent , at least it would not appear excellent at this distance of time , in comparison of compositions of the same kind , which lie before our eyes ; and this is reason enough to save me the ...
... thing in this infancy of com- edy was excellent , at least it would not appear excellent at this distance of time , in comparison of compositions of the same kind , which lie before our eyes ; and this is reason enough to save me the ...
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... things Menander , an Athenian , son of Diopethes and Hegestrates , was apparently the most eminent of the writers of the new comedy . He had been a scholar of Theophrastus ; his passion for the wo- men brought infamy upon him ; he was ...
... things Menander , an Athenian , son of Diopethes and Hegestrates , was apparently the most eminent of the writers of the new comedy . He had been a scholar of Theophrastus ; his passion for the wo- men brought infamy upon him ; he was ...
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... things will not be treated in order , as a regular discourse seems to require , but will arise sometimes separately , sometimes together , from the view of each particular comedy , and from the re- flections which this free manner of ...
... things will not be treated in order , as a regular discourse seems to require , but will arise sometimes separately , sometimes together , from the view of each particular comedy , and from the re- flections which this free manner of ...
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... things which now belong to it . The first that thought of forming comic fables , were Epicharmus and Phormys , and consequently this manner came from Sicily ; Crates was the first Athenian that adopted it , and forsook the practice of ...
... things which now belong to it . The first that thought of forming comic fables , were Epicharmus and Phormys , and consequently this manner came from Sicily ; Crates was the first Athenian that adopted it , and forsook the practice of ...
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... things . Plautus is not quite so regular as Terence in the scheme of his designs , or in the distribution of his acts , but he is more simple in his plot ; for the fables of Terence are commonly complex , as may be seen in his Andrea ...
... things . Plautus is not quite so regular as Terence in the scheme of his designs , or in the distribution of his acts , but he is more simple in his plot ; for the fables of Terence are commonly complex , as may be seen in his Andrea ...
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Página 354 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.
Página 390 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights,...
Página 309 - ... of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed •with equal•care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds.
Página 297 - Sir," said he, •" you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic sciences ctn perform. I have been long of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Página 284 - The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every blast shook spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
Página 110 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Página 331 - Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Página 283 - The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry.
Página 389 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man, whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 330 - ... the various precepts given from time to time for the conquest of passion, and displayed the happiness of those who had obtained the important victory, after which man is no longer the slave of fear, nor the fool of hope ; is no more emaciated by envy, inflamed by anger, emasculated by...