Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... Plautus and Terence wrote comedies . Lucilius compofed fatires , which Cicero esteems to be flight , and void of erudition ( e ) . Fabius Pictor , Cincius Ali- mentus , Pifo Frugi , Valerius Antias , and Cato , were rather annalists ...
... Plautus and Terence wrote comedies . Lucilius compofed fatires , which Cicero esteems to be flight , and void of erudition ( e ) . Fabius Pictor , Cincius Ali- mentus , Pifo Frugi , Valerius Antias , and Cato , were rather annalists ...
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... Plautus a happy talent for ridicule , and peculiar de- licacy of wit ; but Horace , who figured in the court of Auguftus , eminent for de- licacy of tafte , declares against the low roughness of that author's raillery ( a ) . The fame ...
... Plautus a happy talent for ridicule , and peculiar de- licacy of wit ; but Horace , who figured in the court of Auguftus , eminent for de- licacy of tafte , declares against the low roughness of that author's raillery ( a ) . The fame ...
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... Plautus and Terence , were of fuch a rank as to be permitted to dine with gen- tlemen ; and yet were fo defpicable as to be the butt of every man's joke . They were placed at the lower end of the table ; and the guests diverted ...
... Plautus and Terence , were of fuch a rank as to be permitted to dine with gen- tlemen ; and yet were fo defpicable as to be the butt of every man's joke . They were placed at the lower end of the table ; and the guests diverted ...
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... Plautus , who wrote about a cen- tury later . Plautus was a writer of ge- nius ; and it may reasonably be fuppofed that his copies did not fall greatly short of the originals , in matters at least that can be faithfully copied . At that ...
... Plautus , who wrote about a cen- tury later . Plautus was a writer of ge- nius ; and it may reasonably be fuppofed that his copies did not fall greatly short of the originals , in matters at least that can be faithfully copied . At that ...
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... Plautus introduces an actor , for no better purpose than to explain the ftory to the au- dience . In one of his comedies , a house- hold - god is fo obliging as not only to un- fold the fubject , but to relate beforehand every ...
... Plautus introduces an actor , for no better purpose than to explain the ftory to the au- dience . In one of his comedies , a house- hold - god is fo obliging as not only to un- fold the fubject , but to relate beforehand every ...
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