Studier fra sprog- og oldtidsforskning, 106–120. number

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Klein, 1917

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Page 35 - ... the whole audience his activity by leaping over the spikes: he passed from thence to one of the entering doors, where he took snuff with a tolerable good grace, displayed his fine clothes, made two or three feint passes at the curtain with his cane, then faced about and appeared at t'other door.
Page 40 - Antony of Rome, Hamlet of Denmark, Mithridates of Pontus, Theodosius of Greece, and Henry the Eighth of England. It is well known he has been in the condition of each of those illustrious personages for several hours together, and behaved himself in those high stations, in all the changes of the scene, with suitable dignity.
Page 47 - I hope these my gentle readers, who have so much time on their hands, will not grudge throwing away a quarter of an hour in a day on this paper, since they may do it without any hindrance to business.
Page 26 - He will often argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another.
Page 25 - A bad cause would not have been lost, if such an one had not been upon the bench ; nor a profligate youth disinherited, if he had not got drunk every night by toasting an outed ministry. I remember a tory, who, having been fined in a court of justice for a prank that deserved the pillory, desired upon the merit of it to be made a justice of...
Page 26 - ... sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry.
Page 36 - Roger, and fearing lest they should smoke the knight, plucked him by the elbow, and whispered something in his ear, that lasted till the opening of the fifth act. The knight was wonderfully attentive to the account which Orestes gives of Pyrrhus...
Page 16 - Saxon, who was reckoning up how much liquor had passed through him in the last twenty years of his life, which, according to his computation, amounted to twenty-three hogsheads of October, four...
Page 104 - S¿lges ikke s¿rskilt. 7. Aphorismer om Hippokrates. Af JL Heiberg. 0,60. 8. Aristoteles: Athens Forfatningshistorie. Ved K. Hude. 0,75. 9. En Theaterforestilling i Middelalderen. Af Kristoffer Nyrop. Udsolgt. 10. Lukianos: Gudesamtaler, Samtaler i Havet, Menippos's Rejse til Underverdenen. Ved MC Gertz.
Page 33 - ... the virgin ladies usually dispose themselves in the front of the boxes, the young married women compose the second row, while the rear is generally made up of mothers of long standing, undesigning maids, and contented widows. Whoever will cast his eye upon them under this view, during the representation of a play, will find me so far in the right, that a double entendre strikes the first row into an affected gravity, or careless indolence, the second will venture at a smile...

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