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Page 189
... Atellane plays , juft as the Welsh , or fome provincial dialect , is often einployed in our comedies . υπ But now we learn from Athenæus , that L. Sylla wrote fome of these Atellanes in the ROMAN LANGUAGE . ὑπ ' αὐτὰ γραφείσαι σατυρι ...
... Atellane plays , juft as the Welsh , or fome provincial dialect , is often einployed in our comedies . υπ But now we learn from Athenæus , that L. Sylla wrote fome of these Atellanes in the ROMAN LANGUAGE . ὑπ ' αὐτὰ γραφείσαι σατυρι ...
Page 190
... Atellane , and not to strip it of all the pleafantry arifing from the barbarous dialect , he affected , it seems , the antique in the turn of his expreffion . Hence the other part of his character ( which in the politer age of ...
... Atellane , and not to strip it of all the pleafantry arifing from the barbarous dialect , he affected , it seems , the antique in the turn of his expreffion . Hence the other part of his character ( which in the politer age of ...
Page 199
... Atellane plays ( as was likely ) ftill held . the affections of the people , the poet was not openly to reproach and ... Atellanes , which came directly in his way , after having clofed his account of the Roman tragedy , he relates , as ...
... Atellane plays ( as was likely ) ftill held . the affections of the people , the poet was not openly to reproach and ... Atellanes , which came directly in his way , after having clofed his account of the Roman tragedy , he relates , as ...
Page 202
... Atellane and the latter , from not appre- hending the true measure and degree of the tra- gic mixture . To correct both thefe , the poet gives the exacteft idea of the fatyrs , in the image of a Roman matron , fharing in the mirth of a ...
... Atellane and the latter , from not appre- hending the true measure and degree of the tra- gic mixture . To correct both thefe , the poet gives the exacteft idea of the fatyrs , in the image of a Roman matron , fharing in the mirth of a ...
Page 206
... Atellane , whofe licen- tious ribaldry , as hath been observed , would , of course , infect the firft effays of the Roman fatire . But these rules , so neceffary to be followed in the fatiric , are ( to observe it by the way ) ftill ...
... Atellane , whofe licen- tious ribaldry , as hath been observed , would , of course , infect the firft effays of the Roman fatire . But these rules , so neceffary to be followed in the fatiric , are ( to observe it by the way ) ftill ...
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