The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... Plautus to the delicacy and civility of Terence , the faithful copier of Menander ; and that Terence , to gratify an audience unacquainted with the real excellences of the drama , found himself obliged to violate the simplicity of ...
... Plautus to the delicacy and civility of Terence , the faithful copier of Menander ; and that Terence , to gratify an audience unacquainted with the real excellences of the drama , found himself obliged to violate the simplicity of ...
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... Plautus hear ; Gay were his jests , his numbers charmed their ear . ' Let me not say too lavishly they praised ; But sure their judgment was full cheaply pleased , If you or I with taste are haply bless'd , To know a clownish from a ...
... Plautus hear ; Gay were his jests , his numbers charmed their ear . ' Let me not say too lavishly they praised ; But sure their judgment was full cheaply pleased , If you or I with taste are haply bless'd , To know a clownish from a ...
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... Plautus has adulterated a rich vein of genuine wit and humour with a mixture of the basest buf- foonery . No writer seems to have been born with a more forcible or more fertile genius for comedy . He has drawn some characters with ...
... Plautus has adulterated a rich vein of genuine wit and humour with a mixture of the basest buf- foonery . No writer seems to have been born with a more forcible or more fertile genius for comedy . He has drawn some characters with ...
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