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... ve gained the port ; You've fooled me long - make others now your sport . ' All the foregoing extracts are from Lord Neaves ' collec- tion . PLAUTUS . DIED B.C. 184 . HE Roman drama , 176 THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION .
... ve gained the port ; You've fooled me long - make others now your sport . ' All the foregoing extracts are from Lord Neaves ' collec- tion . PLAUTUS . DIED B.C. 184 . HE Roman drama , 176 THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION .
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Henry Grey (F.R.B.S.). PLAUTUS . DIED B.C. 184 . HE Roman drama , more than any other branch of their literature , was an inheritance from Greece . The plays , however , which , during a period of five hundred years , amused a Roman ...
Henry Grey (F.R.B.S.). PLAUTUS . DIED B.C. 184 . HE Roman drama , more than any other branch of their literature , was an inheritance from Greece . The plays , however , which , during a period of five hundred years , amused a Roman ...
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... Roman imitators ; for he says , - ' Live as a free man , and it makes thee free . ' The entire absence of love - scenes was another peculiarity in these dramas ; for although there was generally a love story , the audience were never ...
... Roman imitators ; for he says , - ' Live as a free man , and it makes thee free . ' The entire absence of love - scenes was another peculiarity in these dramas ; for although there was generally a love story , the audience were never ...
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... Roman manners of his day , and his characters are citizens of the world . His diction , also , has been highly praised , and he was perhaps the first who raised conversa- tional Latin to the dignity of a literary style . His plays ...
... Roman manners of his day , and his characters are citizens of the world . His diction , also , has been highly praised , and he was perhaps the first who raised conversa- tional Latin to the dignity of a literary style . His plays ...
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... Roman audience ; and it is interesting to scholars as containing the only existing specimen of the Carthaginian language ; but the plot is devoid of ingenuity , and tediously worked out . There is , however , some real love - making ...
... Roman audience ; and it is interesting to scholars as containing the only existing specimen of the Carthaginian language ; but the plot is devoid of ingenuity , and tediously worked out . There is , however , some real love - making ...
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