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... Plautus and Terence , drew their materials purely from social life , and were concerned with the most mundane interests . But the degraded taste of imperial Rome and Byzantium could not appreciate an enter- tainment in which wit and ...
... Plautus and Terence , drew their materials purely from social life , and were concerned with the most mundane interests . But the degraded taste of imperial Rome and Byzantium could not appreciate an enter- tainment in which wit and ...
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... Plautus , who is mentioned with Terence in the Prologue as ' bearing the bell ' among the learned of the day . Its two principal characters , Ralph Roister Doister , a pusillanimous , vain , and foolish braggart , and Matthew Merigreek ...
... Plautus , who is mentioned with Terence in the Prologue as ' bearing the bell ' among the learned of the day . Its two principal characters , Ralph Roister Doister , a pusillanimous , vain , and foolish braggart , and Matthew Merigreek ...
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... Plautus . The work is important for several reasons . It is our first humorous play in prose ; it suggested part of the plot of The Taming of the Shrew ; and it illustrates the influence on our stage , not of the Roman drama direct ...
... Plautus . The work is important for several reasons . It is our first humorous play in prose ; it suggested part of the plot of The Taming of the Shrew ; and it illustrates the influence on our stage , not of the Roman drama direct ...
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... widespread popularity . In his fifth and sixth years he would read parts of Virgil , Horace , Terence , Plautus , and the Satirists . If we turn to Love's Labour's Lost and The Merry H 2 vi ] 99 Shakspere at School .
... widespread popularity . In his fifth and sixth years he would read parts of Virgil , Horace , Terence , Plautus , and the Satirists . If we turn to Love's Labour's Lost and The Merry H 2 vi ] 99 Shakspere at School .
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... Plautus too light . ' Shakspere , if he com- pleted the normal course of study at the grammar school , would probably have read selections from these writers in the original . But , in any case , their dramas were accessible to him in ...
... Plautus too light . ' Shakspere , if he com- pleted the normal course of study at the grammar school , would probably have read selections from these writers in the original . But , in any case , their dramas were accessible to him in ...
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Page 473 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honours...
Page 485 - The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord ! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Page 44 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Page 538 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 362 - That, to the observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
Page 377 - Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 433 - His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function. How am I then a villain To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, Directly to his good? Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Page 435 - Ay, there's the point: — as, — to be bold with you, — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends, — Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Page 216 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 288 - Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...