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Page viii
... ( prefixed to Vollbehr's edition of Bentley's Terence , London , & c . 1846 ) , in which he takes many critical objections to Bentley's emendations of the text . much use to the young or general reader , it viii PREFACE .
... ( prefixed to Vollbehr's edition of Bentley's Terence , London , & c . 1846 ) , in which he takes many critical objections to Bentley's emendations of the text . much use to the young or general reader , it viii PREFACE .
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 ...
Page xvi
... young poet , promising as he did to gain a large share of the applause which they were anxious to monopolize . The author of the ' Thesaurus ' and the Phasma , ' who endeavoured to take the public by storm by the violent incidents of ...
... young poet , promising as he did to gain a large share of the applause which they were anxious to monopolize . The author of the ' Thesaurus ' and the Phasma , ' who endeavoured to take the public by storm by the violent incidents of ...
Page xvii
... young Rome " of their day , the movement party in politics , the " Greeks " in literature . They would turn from the rugged language and rude jests of the Roman poets to the exquisite diction and polished wit of the Greeks . To this ...
... young Rome " of their day , the movement party in politics , the " Greeks " in literature . They would turn from the rugged language and rude jests of the Roman poets to the exquisite diction and polished wit of the Greeks . To this ...
Page xx
... young at that time , but rather to Q. Fabius Labeo or C. Sulpicius Gallus , or distinguished men of their age , of whom he might more justly have said , " Qui vobis universis et populo placent ; Quorum opera in bello , in otio , in ...
... young at that time , but rather to Q. Fabius Labeo or C. Sulpicius Gallus , or distinguished men of their age , of whom he might more justly have said , " Qui vobis universis et populo placent ; Quorum opera in bello , in otio , in ...
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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?