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Page v
... found in Plautus , parts of Cicero , and occasionally in the earlier poets . For forms of words Plautus and Lucretius have been my chief authorities . I have endeavoured in this way to make my book useful to the student who wishes to ...
... found in Plautus , parts of Cicero , and occasionally in the earlier poets . For forms of words Plautus and Lucretius have been my chief authorities . I have endeavoured in this way to make my book useful to the student who wishes to ...
Page vii
... found reason to prefer it to the opinion of later editors . It is to the commentators what the Bembine Manuscript is to the Codices , and may fairly be estimated in the same Often , no doubt , it contains traces of the genuine text ; as ...
... found reason to prefer it to the opinion of later editors . It is to the commentators what the Bembine Manuscript is to the Codices , and may fairly be estimated in the same Often , no doubt , it contains traces of the genuine text ; as ...
Page viii
... found that I have done more towards maintaining the old text than for any innovations . This edition of Zeune's Terence is the best of all the books that I have used . It contains all the comments of Donatus , Eugraphius , Calpurnius ...
... found that I have done more towards maintaining the old text than for any innovations . This edition of Zeune's Terence is the best of all the books that I have used . It contains all the comments of Donatus , Eugraphius , Calpurnius ...
Page ix
... found useful ; particu- larly as giving in an accessible shape the opinions of some of the chief French critics upon Terence's plays . I may here also gladly acknowledge my obligations to the Rev. A. J. Macleane and to Mr. Long , the ...
... found useful ; particu- larly as giving in an accessible shape the opinions of some of the chief French critics upon Terence's plays . I may here also gladly acknowledge my obligations to the Rev. A. J. Macleane and to Mr. Long , the ...
Page x
... found it necessary to make innumerable alterations , erasures , and additions , so that the Index is to all intents and purposes a new one . I have acknowledged my obligation to other editors whenever I have taken from them quotations ...
... found it necessary to make innumerable alterations , erasures , and additions , so that the Index is to all intents and purposes a new one . I have acknowledged my obligation to other editors whenever I have taken from them quotations ...
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Page 76 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 352 - For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ; Or, if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion...
Page 352 - Peace, brother: be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
Page 254 - Mea sic est ratio et sic animum induco meum: Malo coactus qui suum officium facit, Dum is rescitum iri credit, tantisper cavet; Si sperat fore clam, rursum ad ingenium redit.
Page 424 - other friends remain,' That 'loss is common to the race' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more. Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
Page 174 - I was born of woman, and drew milk As sweet as charity from human breasts. I think, articulate, I laugh and weep, And exercise all functions of a man. How then should I and any man that lives Be strangers to each other?