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Page 217
... Menander and the authors of the new comedy were afterwards admired , as the only mafters of the comic drama , yet ... Menander's wit . Even the case of Terence , which , wit . ART OF POETRY . 217.
... Menander and the authors of the new comedy were afterwards admired , as the only mafters of the comic drama , yet ... Menander's wit . Even the case of Terence , which , wit . ART OF POETRY . 217.
Page 218
... Menander's manner , and attempting too foon , before the public tafte was fufficiently formed for it , to bring it on the ftage , had occafion for all the credit , his noble patrons could give him , to fupport himself against the ...
... Menander's manner , and attempting too foon , before the public tafte was fufficiently formed for it , to bring it on the ftage , had occafion for all the credit , his noble patrons could give him , to fupport himself against the ...
Page 219
... Menander ; why elfe doth he call Terence , " Dimidiate Menander ? " There is the more force in this objection , be- cause the elegant but high humour , here mentioned , is of the trueft merit in comedy ; and because Menander , of whom ...
... Menander ; why elfe doth he call Terence , " Dimidiate Menander ? " There is the more force in this objection , be- cause the elegant but high humour , here mentioned , is of the trueft merit in comedy ; and because Menander , of whom ...
Page 220
... Menander . And the comic humour , fuppofed in the objection , being of the trueft tafte , no reason can be imagined why the poet fhould fo induftriously avoid to transfufe this laft and highest grace into his co- medy . Efpecially fince ...
... Menander . And the comic humour , fuppofed in the objection , being of the trueft tafte , no reason can be imagined why the poet fhould fo induftriously avoid to transfufe this laft and highest grace into his co- medy . Efpecially fince ...
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... Menander ? It refers , I believe , folely to what Quinctilian , as we have feen , obferved , that , with all his emulation of Attic elegance , he was unable , through the native ftubbornness of the Latin tongue , to come up to the Greek ...
... Menander ? It refers , I believe , folely to what Quinctilian , as we have feen , obferved , that , with all his emulation of Attic elegance , he was unable , through the native ftubbornness of the Latin tongue , to come up to the Greek ...
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