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... Plautus and Terence should come forth diminished in weight and substance , after having been subject- ed to the alembic of modern criticism . That which survives the investigation , however , is of a solid and valuable character . If ...
... Plautus and Terence should come forth diminished in weight and substance , after having been subject- ed to the alembic of modern criticism . That which survives the investigation , however , is of a solid and valuable character . If ...
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... Plautus and Terence . Of these , the former appears the more original , the latter the more elegant au- thor . The comedies of Plautus are much more connected with manners , -much more full of what may be termed drollery and comic ...
... Plautus and Terence . Of these , the former appears the more original , the latter the more elegant au- thor . The comedies of Plautus are much more connected with manners , -much more full of what may be termed drollery and comic ...
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... Plautus and Terence banish from my sight , Lest rage should teach these injured wits to join , And their dumb books cry shame on works like mine . To vulgar standards , then , I frame my play , Writing at ease ; for , since the public ...
... Plautus and Terence banish from my sight , Lest rage should teach these injured wits to join , And their dumb books cry shame on works like mine . To vulgar standards , then , I frame my play , Writing at ease ; for , since the public ...
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... Plautus , and continued to play their frolics during the mid- dle ages , when the legitimate Drama was unknown . For the former fact , sculpture , as well as tradition , is appealed to by Italian antiquaries , who have dis- covered the ...
... Plautus , and continued to play their frolics during the mid- dle ages , when the legitimate Drama was unknown . For the former fact , sculpture , as well as tradition , is appealed to by Italian antiquaries , who have dis- covered the ...
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... Plautus . It was first acted in 1490. La Calandra is re- markable not only for being the first Italian come- dy , but also for the perfection of scenic decoration with which it was accompanied in the representa- tion . It was followed ...
... Plautus . It was first acted in 1490. La Calandra is re- markable not only for being the first Italian come- dy , but also for the perfection of scenic decoration with which it was accompanied in the representa- tion . It was followed ...
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Page 405 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Page 405 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 331 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 414 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 362 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 332 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
Page 323 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Page 400 - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
Page 427 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 331 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?