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 | John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...performed, and it seems probable that Milton refers to this entertainment in his Apology for Smectymnuus. ' I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...mispronounced and I misliked ; and to make up the Atticism1, they were out, and I hissed.' On the Christmas morning of this year (1629) at daybreak,... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 pages
...their grooms and mademoiselles. There, while they acted and over, acted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...and I thought them fools ; they made sport, and I 1 The hearing of, knowing about. 8 A head-dress. 3 Divinity students. CALUMNIES REFUTED. 39 laughed... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 234 pages
...their grooms and mademoiselles. There, while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...and I thought them fools ; they made sport, and I 1 The hearing of, knowing about. * A head-dress. 1 Divinity students. CALUMNIES REFUTED. 39 laughed... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1872 - 538 pages
...relates with great luxuriance " (what does he mean ?) " the compenoveracted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought tnem fools; they made sport, and I laughed; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and, to make up the... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 pages
...their grooms and mademoiselles ? There, whilst they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator : they thought themselves gallant...and, to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed." — Apology for Smectymnuus. Who can doubt that to a man to whom such a scene as this presented... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 pages
...their grooms and mademoiselles ? There, whilst they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator: they thought themselves gallant...and, to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed."—Apology for Smcctymnuus. Who can doubt that to a man to whom such a scene as this presented... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...their grooms and mademoiselles ? There, while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...and, to make up the Atticism, they were out, and I hissed.1 Milton, as he hints in this passage, had other opportunities besides the present, while at... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1875 - 290 pages
...ladies, he (Milton) proceeds thus : ' There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I mimicked ; and, to make up the Atticism, they were out, and I hissed.' " § 266. тЬ Se... dviDfioXo-y... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1875 - 540 pages
...relates with great Inxuriancf " (what does he mean ?) " the compenoveracted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought taery fools ; they made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and, to make up... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1878 - 328 pages
...court ladies, he proceeds thus : " There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I mimicked ; and to make up the Atticism, they were out, and I hissed." W. — 266. P. 94, 1. 2. KivSwcvcis,... | |
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