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Page xxxvi
... - formation of MEN into MUM , with any criticisms in the world , yet many inftances of the like occur in our late editor's notes . - In the Comedy of Errors , Att At IV . Dromio is ludicrously picturing the Bailiff , ` ` xxxvi PREFACE .
... - formation of MEN into MUM , with any criticisms in the world , yet many inftances of the like occur in our late editor's notes . - In the Comedy of Errors , Att At IV . Dromio is ludicrously picturing the Bailiff , ` ` xxxvi PREFACE .
Page 64
... comedy obtained . *** I know the ancients have one " or two examples of tragicomedies , as Plautus hath Amphitrio . But if we marke them well , we fhall finde " that they never , or very daintily match horne - pipes and " funerals ...
... comedy obtained . *** I know the ancients have one " or two examples of tragicomedies , as Plautus hath Amphitrio . But if we marke them well , we fhall finde " that they never , or very daintily match horne - pipes and " funerals ...
Page 81
... without first being a good man . " Our learned comedian being a great reader of 66 G Greek Greek authors , has literally tranflated ' Strabo's words . Sect . 11. on SHAKESPEARE . 81 out being at the trouble of going to the more ...
... without first being a good man . " Our learned comedian being a great reader of 66 G Greek Greek authors , has literally tranflated ' Strabo's words . Sect . 11. on SHAKESPEARE . 81 out being at the trouble of going to the more ...
Page 94
... comedian when he leffens and " brings down from its heroic ftation , the character of " Therfites . " 3 The character of Polyphemus appear'd to Euripides fo proper for farce ; that from hence he form'd his fatyric play , The Cyclops ...
... comedian when he leffens and " brings down from its heroic ftation , the character of " Therfites . " 3 The character of Polyphemus appear'd to Euripides fo proper for farce ; that from hence he form'd his fatyric play , The Cyclops ...
Page 98
... comedy . 8 8 The Banquet was held in Agatho's houfe , a tragic poet . The perfon , who relates , concludes with ... comedian difputing- with Socrates . Socrates had brought both these poets to confefs what is mention'd above . And yet it ...
... comedy . 8 8 The Banquet was held in Agatho's houfe , a tragic poet . The perfon , who relates , concludes with ... comedian difputing- with Socrates . Socrates had brought both these poets to confefs what is mention'd above . And yet it ...
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