Comedies of Plautus: Amphitruo, Amphitryon. Miles Gloriosus. CaptiviT. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769 |
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... prithee cool them first Against the wall . MERC . A voice flies to my ears . L. V. 218. Vamp me up a - new . ] The word in the original is , interpolabit . Interpolare , according to Nonius , eft novam formam ex vetere fingere , and is ...
... prithee cool them first Against the wall . MERC . A voice flies to my ears . L. V. 218. Vamp me up a - new . ] The word in the original is , interpolabit . Interpolare , according to Nonius , eft novam formam ex vetere fingere , and is ...
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... prithee now go in , and tell the family Some of their fellow - fervants are arriv'd . 270 MERC . Whose fellow you may be I know not ; but if You don't be gone this inftant , I fhall give you him , fays mentiris nunc jam- " Now you lye ...
... prithee now go in , and tell the family Some of their fellow - fervants are arriv'd . 270 MERC . Whose fellow you may be I know not ; but if You don't be gone this inftant , I fhall give you him , fays mentiris nunc jam- " Now you lye ...
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... or prefcription . So that the fenfe is- you have made me your own by having held me in poffeffion with your fifts . I have given it another turn . D 2 MERC . MERC . Come prithee , what's your name ? But ACTI . 35 SCENE I.
... or prefcription . So that the fenfe is- you have made me your own by having held me in poffeffion with your fifts . I have given it another turn . D 2 MERC . MERC . Come prithee , what's your name ? But ACTI . 35 SCENE I.
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Titus Maccius Plautus. MERC . Come prithee , what's your name ? But what you shall command . Amphitryon's Sofia . Sos . I have no name , MERC . You faid you was Sos . I miftook : I meant To fay , I was Amphitryon's Affociate . MERC . I ...
Titus Maccius Plautus. MERC . Come prithee , what's your name ? But what you shall command . Amphitryon's Sofia . Sos . I have no name , MERC . You faid you was Sos . I miftook : I meant To fay , I was Amphitryon's Affociate . MERC . I ...
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... prithee , love , Do not be angry with him for my fake . JUP . Sweet , you shall be obey'd . MERC . ( Afide . ) How plaguy cross His wenching makes him ! V.56 . ] Alcmena's fatisfaction on receiving the prefent of a gold cup , may ...
... prithee , love , Do not be angry with him for my fake . JUP . Sweet , you shall be obey'd . MERC . ( Afide . ) How plaguy cross His wenching makes him ! V.56 . ] Alcmena's fatisfaction on receiving the prefent of a gold cup , may ...
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Afide Alcmena alfo allufion AMPH Amphitryon ancients ARIST aſk Author Becauſe beſt BLEPH Blepharo BRAGGARD CAPTAIN buſineſs captive COLMAN comedies door Echard expreffion facrifice faid fame father feem fenfe fent Ferneze fervant fervice fhall fignifies fince firſt flave fome ftill ftrange fuch fuppofe fure give Gods heav'n Hegio himſelf houſe humour huſband inftant Jove juft Jupiter juſt leaſt loft maſter means MERC Mercury miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf No-MAN obferved occafion original paffage Palaftrio Parafite perfon PERIPLECTOMENES PHIL Philocomafium Philocrates Plautus play pleaſure PLEU prefent preferve Prithee Prologue purpoſe PYRG reafon refpect ſay Sceledrus SCENE ſeems ſeen ſhall ſhe ſhould ſlave Sofia ſpeak ſuppoſed Teleboans tell Terence thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tranflation troth TYND Tyndarus underſtand uſed wife word yourſelf
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Page 259 - 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...
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Page 12 - I could not easily pardon the liberty the poet has taken of larding his play with, not only indecent expressions, but such gross words, as I don't think our mob would suffer from a mountebank.
Page 45 - 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.
Page 9 - 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.
Page 82 - 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.
Page 283 - For when my father is informed of this, And learns how well your heart has been inclin'd Both to his son and to himself, he'll never Prove such a niggard, but in gratitude He will reward you with your liberty ; And I, if I return, with all my power Will urge him the more readily to do it. For by your aid, your courtesy, your courage, Wisdom and prudence, you have been the means Of my return to...