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" There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them • fools ; they made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and to make up the atticism,... "
The Edinburgh Review - Page 174
1834
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

1898 - 612 pages
...harass not boys alone. Of university men who acted classical plays in his day, Milton says bluntly, " They mispronounced, and I misliked ; and, to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed." The men he derided were victims to tortures of the tongue, which, as far as speakers are concerned,...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 346 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. Judge now whether so many good textmen were not sufficient to instruct me of false beards and...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton: Comprising ...

John Milton, Hiram Corson - 1899 - 354 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. Judge now whether so many good textmen were not sufficient to instruct me of false beards and...
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Orations of Demosthenes: Translated by Charles Rann Kennedy, with a Critical ...

Demosthenes - 1900 - 522 pages
...court ladies, he proceeds thus: " 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." "* The first quotation is from the beginning of the " Hecuba." The words Kcucbv ncucut are...
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The Floating Island

Ernest Godfrey Hoffsten - 1908 - 44 pages
...with 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. Judge now whether so many good textmen were not sufficient to instruct me of false beards and...
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Orations, Volume 2

Demosthenes - 1908 - 448 pages
...overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator : they thought themselves gallant men, and 1 thought them fools ; they made sport, and I laughed...misliked; and, to make up the Atticism, they were out, and 1 hissed." 2 The first quotation is from the beginning of the Hecuba. The words K«u<rWa««is are...
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Milton and Liberty

William Morison - 1909 - 172 pages
...ladies, their grooms and their maids — " 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." Long before entering on the controversial period of his life and publishing his succession...
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The Last Leaf: Observations, During Seventy-five Years, of Men and Events in ...

James Kendall Hosmer - 1912 - 376 pages
...scorn, and signalised himself by his stormy discontent. Here is his own description of his conduct : " I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant...; and to make up the Atticism, they were out and I hissed." It was the young Milton, in the year in which he wrote the Hymn on the Nativity. Do I need...
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In Praise of Cambridge: An Anthology in Prose and Verse

Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 246 pages
...with 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. Judge now whether so many good textmen were not sufficient to instruct me of false beards and...
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In Praise of Cambridge: An Anthology in Prose and Verse

Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 244 pages
...with their grooms and mademoiselles. There, while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars I was a spectator; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them fools; they and, to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed. Judge made sport, and I laughed; they mispronounced,...
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