Winter Evenings, Or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, Volumen2John Ronalds, 1805 |
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... Plautus . LATELY addressed to you a few observations on the omission of grace at table ; and I now beg leave to add some remarks on another omission , which fashion seems to recommend , but which is countenanced neither by the examples ...
... Plautus . LATELY addressed to you a few observations on the omission of grace at table ; and I now beg leave to add some remarks on another omission , which fashion seems to recommend , but which is countenanced neither by the examples ...
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... Plautus introduces his Trinummus , with a dialogue between Luxury and Poverty ; in the prologue of the Rivals , Mr. Sheridan has formed a dialogue between a sergeant at law - and an attorney ; and Mr. Garrick's epi- logue to the English ...
... Plautus introduces his Trinummus , with a dialogue between Luxury and Poverty ; in the prologue of the Rivals , Mr. Sheridan has formed a dialogue between a sergeant at law - and an attorney ; and Mr. Garrick's epi- logue to the English ...
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... the English call Farce , is the true ancient comedy , as it appears in Plautus and Aristophanes . Serious comedy is indeed al- most a contradiction in terms . Terence's comedies are confessedly OR , LUCUBRATIONS . 187.
... the English call Farce , is the true ancient comedy , as it appears in Plautus and Aristophanes . Serious comedy is indeed al- most a contradiction in terms . Terence's comedies are confessedly OR , LUCUBRATIONS . 187.
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... Plautus and Aristophanes ? The ex- cellent Collier did great service to society by satirizing the indecencies of the English stage in the last age ; and indecency is certainly not the fault of the present co- medy . The fault of the ...
... Plautus and Aristophanes ? The ex- cellent Collier did great service to society by satirizing the indecencies of the English stage in the last age ; and indecency is certainly not the fault of the present co- medy . The fault of the ...
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... Plautus has never been estimat- ed at the same value with Terence . Plautus has mingled many coarse jokes and many indecent allusions with his wit , which cannot but lower his merit , and lessen the praise which would otherwise be ...
... Plautus has never been estimat- ed at the same value with Terence . Plautus has mingled many coarse jokes and many indecent allusions with his wit , which cannot but lower his merit , and lessen the praise which would otherwise be ...
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Página 128 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Página 209 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Página 209 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Página 208 - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom : but they could not. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Página 28 - They will either teach you so to regulate your conduct as to be able to set the most malicious inquiries at defiance ; or, if that be a lost hope, they will teach you prudence enough not to attract the public attention to a character which will only pass without censure when it passes without observation.
Página 131 - All the Books of the Bible are either already most admirable, and exalted pieces of Poesie, or are the best Materials in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; None but a good Artist will know how to do it : neither must we think to cut and polish Diamonds with so little pains and skill as we do Marble. For if any man design to compose a Sacred Poem, by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter,...
Página 84 - Gramineae" — the last of the natural orders elaborated for the "Genera Plantarum": — " Much has been done, however, for the elucidation of the order in local Floras. Already at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present...
Página 273 - For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
Página 128 - A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, And the plague shall never depart from his house...
Página 132 - The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition ; and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.