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| John Evelyn - 1920 - 258 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.' Even in youth the author of Comus and Samson Agonistes was a consciously superior person,... | |
| 1920 - 492 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." M The reader may judge presently whether Milton might not have resented the use of Comus, trimmed out... | |
| 1920 - 482 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." w The reader may judge presently whether Milton might not have resented the use of Comus, trimmed out... | |
| Ida Langdon - 1924 - 362 pages
...sat among 'the judicious.' 'While they acted, and overacted,' he writes, 'among other young scholars I was a spectator; they thought themselves gallant...mispronounced, and I misliked; and to make up the Atticism,4 they were out, and I hissed.'5 Also he betrays an interest in the still cruder exhibitions... | |
| Ida Langdon - 1924 - 366 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;...and to make up the Atticism, they were out, and I hissed. 2. 1 Defence, (Preface), Works 6.5: Sed eccum ipsum, crepant fores, prodit histrio in proscenium:... | |
| Western Reserve University - 1924 - 104 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 I thought them Fools ; they made sport, and I laugh'd ; they mispronounc'd, and I rhislik'd ; and, to make up the Atticism, they were out, and I... | |
| Walter Franz Schirmer - 1924 - 252 pages
...Anschauungen. Auch die Universitätsdramen missfielen ihm: 'I was a spectator: they thought themselves gattant men, and I thought them fools; they made sport and I laughed ; ihey mispronounced, and I disliked, and, to mitke up the Atticism, they were out and I hissed' (vgl.... | |
| Aristotle - 1927 - 528 pages
...them ornament rather than force. " 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." For antithesis in general cf. Roberta's edition of De elocution«, pp. 266, 267. Even Burke's... | |
| Arthur Gray - 1927 - 434 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. The disclaimer was perhaps a little disingenuous, if it suggested a disparagement of Shakespeare.... | |
| John Milton - 1928 - 408 pages
...1 ttid. 3. 85. « Ibid. 1. 483. There, while they acted and over-acted, 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 text-men were not sufficient to instruct me of false beards... | |
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