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... Menander tranflated 125 CXXXIX . Anecdotes of the poet Philemon , and a felection of his fragments 136 CXL . Anecdotes and fragments of Diphi- lus , of Apollodorus Gelous , of Phi- lippidas and of Pofidippus , writers of the new Comedy ...
... Menander tranflated 125 CXXXIX . Anecdotes of the poet Philemon , and a felection of his fragments 136 CXL . Anecdotes and fragments of Diphi- lus , of Apollodorus Gelous , of Phi- lippidas and of Pofidippus , writers of the new Comedy ...
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... ( MENANDER . ) " Still to be tattling , ftill to prate , " No luxury in life fo great . " . HE humours and characters of a popu I lous lous county town at a diftance from the capital furnish matter of much amusement to a curious obferver ...
... ( MENANDER . ) " Still to be tattling , ftill to prate , " No luxury in life fo great . " . HE humours and characters of a popu I lous lous county town at a diftance from the capital furnish matter of much amusement to a curious obferver ...
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... Menander , or at most extends to a very few years beyond it , when the curtain may figuratively be faid to have dropt upon all the glories of the Athenian ftage . This , though the last , is yet a brilliant æra , for now flourished Menander ...
... Menander , or at most extends to a very few years beyond it , when the curtain may figuratively be faid to have dropt upon all the glories of the Athenian ftage . This , though the last , is yet a brilliant æra , for now flourished Menander ...
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... Menander's comedy of The Charioteer , in which an old mendicant is introduced carrying about a painted figure of the Great Mother of the Gods , after the manner of the present Popish Rofaries , and begging a boon as ufual on thofe ...
... Menander's comedy of The Charioteer , in which an old mendicant is introduced carrying about a painted figure of the Great Mother of the Gods , after the manner of the present Popish Rofaries , and begging a boon as ufual on thofe ...
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... Menander breaks forth into a bolder rhapfody , which breathes the spirit and nearly the very words of the Hebrew prophets : a perfon ( in what drama does not appear ) addreffes his com- panion in the scene to this effect- " If any " man ...
... Menander breaks forth into a bolder rhapfody , which breathes the spirit and nearly the very words of the Hebrew prophets : a perfon ( in what drama does not appear ) addreffes his com- panion in the scene to this effect- " If any " man ...
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