Sketches of the History of Man, 1. köideCreech, 1778 |
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Page 185
... Plautus and Terence wrote comedies . Lucilius compofed fatires , which Cicero efteems to be flight , and void of erudition ( e ) . Fa- bius Pictor , Cincius Alimentus , Pifo Fru- gi , Valerius Antias , and Cato , were rather annalists ...
... Plautus and Terence wrote comedies . Lucilius compofed fatires , which Cicero efteems to be flight , and void of erudition ( e ) . Fa- bius Pictor , Cincius Alimentus , Pifo Fru- gi , Valerius Antias , and Cato , were rather annalists ...
Page 201
... Plautus a happy talent for ridicule , and peculiar de- licacy of wit ; but Horace , who figured in the court of Auguftus , eminent for de- licacy of tafte , declares against the low roughness of that author's raillery ( a ) . The fame ...
... Plautus a happy talent for ridicule , and peculiar de- licacy of wit ; but Horace , who figured in the court of Auguftus , eminent for de- licacy of tafte , declares against the low roughness of that author's raillery ( a ) . The fame ...
Page 209
... Plautus and Terence , were of fuch a rank as to be permitted to dine with gen- tlement ; and yet were fo despicable as to be the butt of every man's joke . They were placed at the lower end of the table ; and the guests diverted ...
... Plautus and Terence , were of fuch a rank as to be permitted to dine with gen- tlement ; and yet were fo despicable as to be the butt of every man's joke . They were placed at the lower end of the table ; and the guests diverted ...
Page 270
... Plautus , who wrote about a cen- tury later . Plautus was a writer of ge- nius ; and it may reasonably be fuppofed that his copies did not fall greatly fhort of the originals , in matters at least that can be faithfully copied . At that ...
... Plautus , who wrote about a cen- tury later . Plautus was a writer of ge- nius ; and it may reasonably be fuppofed that his copies did not fall greatly fhort of the originals , in matters at least that can be faithfully copied . At that ...
Page 271
... Plautus introduces an actor , for no other purpose but to explain the story to the au- dience . In one of his comedies , a house- hold - god is fo obliging , as not only to un- fold the subject , but to relate beforehand every ...
... Plautus introduces an actor , for no other purpose but to explain the story to the au- dience . In one of his comedies , a house- hold - god is fo obliging , as not only to un- fold the subject , but to relate beforehand every ...
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Page 4 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the Field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 243 - And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
Page 237 - Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place : ye are witnesses this day.
Page 229 - And she said unto them : Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty : why call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Page 234 - Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto...
Page 227 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 209 - Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped ; And they have kept it since, by being dead. But, were they now to write, when critics weigh Each line, and...
Page 235 - And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Page 37 - If dying mortals' doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night ; No parting souls to grisly Pluto go. Nor seek the dreary silent shades below ; But forth they fly immortal in their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find...
Page 227 - Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband.