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Terence. PREFACE . In writing the following commentary on the plays of Terence , my chief aim has been to maintain the utmost brevity consistent with clearness ; and it is possible that some readers may consider me too brief upon ...
Terence. PREFACE . In writing the following commentary on the plays of Terence , my chief aim has been to maintain the utmost brevity consistent with clearness ; and it is possible that some readers may consider me too brief upon ...
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Terence. In determining the text of Terence we have almost as much difficulty as in any classical author . To pass from modern editions , in which the student is puzzled to decide which is the ori- ginal reading , and which the ...
Terence. In determining the text of Terence we have almost as much difficulty as in any classical author . To pass from modern editions , in which the student is puzzled to decide which is the ori- ginal reading , and which the ...
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Terence. 1565 ) . It must be considered as the only one with any pretension to original authority , and as the source from which most of the ex- isting manuscripts have arisen . I have often in the following notes had occasion to mention ...
Terence. 1565 ) . It must be considered as the only one with any pretension to original authority , and as the source from which most of the ex- isting manuscripts have arisen . I have often in the following notes had occasion to mention ...
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... Terence . This I have treated of fully in the Introduction . Even in this point he seems to have been led away by the love of correction , and to have introduced into the versification of Terence a greater licence and more variety than ...
... Terence . This I have treated of fully in the Introduction . Even in this point he seems to have been led away by the love of correction , and to have introduced into the versification of Terence a greater licence and more variety than ...
Page ix
Terence. much use to the young or general reader , it is yet a valuable and carefully edited book . Of other editions those that I have chiefly used have been that by Perlet ( Lips . 1827 ) , Reinhardt ( Lips . 1827 ) , and Stallbaum ...
Terence. much use to the young or general reader , it is yet a valuable and carefully edited book . Of other editions those that I have chiefly used have been that by Perlet ( Lips . 1827 ) , Reinhardt ( Lips . 1827 ) , and Stallbaum ...
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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?