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... humour , with a spirit of lively repartee , and a facetious turn of expression , always at com- mand . He , therefore , had the means of securing to himself the goodwill of his audience , independently of curiosity , or the complex ...
... humour , with a spirit of lively repartee , and a facetious turn of expression , always at com- mand . He , therefore , had the means of securing to himself the goodwill of his audience , independently of curiosity , or the complex ...
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... humour were , in many in- stances , neither refined , nor decent , nor genuine . His genius in his Orations appears with as much dignity and elevation as brilliancy : and his Trea- tise De Oratore , ( with the exception I am going to ...
... humour were , in many in- stances , neither refined , nor decent , nor genuine . His genius in his Orations appears with as much dignity and elevation as brilliancy : and his Trea- tise De Oratore , ( with the exception I am going to ...
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... humour here , and still more in a most disgraceful letter in the collection Ad Fami- liares ; nothing more frigid than most of the puns . Dr. Hurd seems to adopt Cicero's own apology , that " the main end of jesting at the bar is , not ...
... humour here , and still more in a most disgraceful letter in the collection Ad Fami- liares ; nothing more frigid than most of the puns . Dr. Hurd seems to adopt Cicero's own apology , that " the main end of jesting at the bar is , not ...
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... humour , he might have effected a coalition of the old and new comedy from the materials before him , superior to any thing in the Greek in every respect , excepting that of language . But there , Quinctilian puts any approach to a ...
... humour , he might have effected a coalition of the old and new comedy from the materials before him , superior to any thing in the Greek in every respect , excepting that of language . But there , Quinctilian puts any approach to a ...
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... humour were not Terence's strong hold , and because in some of his pieces he was a professed translator , he had no portion of those qualities . There are touches , both of comic humour and of true taste in his works , scarcely to be ...
... humour were not Terence's strong hold , and because in some of his pieces he was a professed translator , he had no portion of those qualities . There are touches , both of comic humour and of true taste in his works , scarcely to be ...
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