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... by permission , from the admirable version of t comedies by the late Mr. Hookham Frere , and marked ( F. ) For all translations not so marked present writer is responsible . ARISTOPHANES . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . IT has been observed.
... by permission , from the admirable version of t comedies by the late Mr. Hookham Frere , and marked ( F. ) For all translations not so marked present writer is responsible . ARISTOPHANES . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . IT has been observed.
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... admirable purveyors . He cannot see on which side his best interests lie , and at last appeals helplessly to the audience to advise him . The Black - pudding - man proposes that as a test of the honesty of their service , he should ...
... admirable purveyors . He cannot see on which side his best interests lie , and at last appeals helplessly to the audience to advise him . The Black - pudding - man proposes that as a test of the honesty of their service , he should ...
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... admirable translation . Dicæopolis begs Euripides to lend him certain other valuable stage properties , one after the other : a beggar's staff , -a little shabby basket , -a broken - lipped pitcher . The tragedian grows out of patience ...
... admirable translation . Dicæopolis begs Euripides to lend him certain other valuable stage properties , one after the other : a beggar's staff , -a little shabby basket , -a broken - lipped pitcher . The tragedian grows out of patience ...
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... bench , in order that the strangers in the house to whom his person was previously unknown might see how admirable a counterpart the stage Socrates was of the original . CHAPTER V. THE WASPS . THIS Comedy , which was 100 ARISTOPHANES .
... bench , in order that the strangers in the house to whom his person was previously unknown might see how admirable a counterpart the stage Socrates was of the original . CHAPTER V. THE WASPS . THIS Comedy , which was 100 ARISTOPHANES .
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... Admirably written and fairly illustrated , and brings within the com- pass of 160 pages the record of investigations and discoveries scattered over as many volumes . Seldom indeed do we find such subjects treated in a style at once so ...
... Admirably written and fairly illustrated , and brings within the com- pass of 160 pages the record of investigations and discoveries scattered over as many volumes . Seldom indeed do we find such subjects treated in a style at once so ...
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