The Ecclesiazusae; Or, Female ParliamentJ.H. Parker, 1833 - 102 pàgines |
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The Ecclesiazusæ, Or Female Parliament, Translated ... by the Rev. Rowland ... Visualització completa - 1833 |
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Agyrrius Antisthenes Aristophanes arms Assembly Athenian Athens banquet beard befits Behoves BLEPHYRUS Brasen-nose College CADE chaplet charms CHORUS CHREMES citizens cloak costive court crown cuttle-fish dame damsel dare decree deign delay DEMOSTHENES door dost e'en e'er EIGHTH WOMAN Exeter College fair fear Fevre follow fool forsooth Greeks hast henceforth Heythuysen Jack Cade John's College Jove lest lovage Lysicrates Magdalen College MAID Myronides ne'er NICIAS NINTH WOMAN nought o'er obols olden Oxford pion play Plutus Pnyx poet Potter PRAXAGORA pray prythee SCENE SECOND BURGHER SECOND OLD WOMAN SECOND WOMAN seize SEVENTH WOMAN shalt shew slaves speak supper swear tell thee THIRD OLD WOMAN thou thou'rt Thrasybulus Tis thine to-day translation twain Goddesses Twas ugly Venus vile wench whate'er whence Wherefore Whoe'er wilt wine women Worcester College words YOUNG WOMAN YOUTH καὶ τὸ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 32 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Pàgina 91 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee...
Pàgina vii - Peace: the introduction, the secret assembly of the women, their rehearsal of their parts as men, the description of the popular assembly, are all handled in the most masterly manner; but towards the middle the action stands still. Nothing remains but the representation of the perplexities and confusion which arise from the...
Pàgina 100 - That which smokes in the middle", said he, " is a sow's stomach, filled with a composition of minced pork, hog's brains, eggs, pepper, cloves, garlic, aniseed, rue, ginger, oil, wine, and pickle. On the right-hand side are the teats and belly of a sow, just farrowed, fried with sweet wine, oil, flour, lovage, and pepper. On the left is a fricassee of snails, fed, or rather purged, with milk. At that end next Mr. Pallet, are fritters of pompions, lovage, origanum, and oil ; and here are a couple of...
Pàgina vi - Of this there is the most perfect illustration in Aristophanes. In language and versification his excellence is not barely acknowledged — it is such as to entitle him to take his place among the first poets to whom Greece has given birth. In many passages of serious and earnest poetry, which (thanks to the boundless variety and lawless formation of the popular comedy of Athens) he has here and there introduced, Aristophanes shews himself to be a true poet, and capable, had he so chosen, of reaching...
Pàgina 87 - Signifies an Excuse for him that is summoned to appear and answer to an Action, or to perform Suit to a CourtKaron, &o., by Reason of Sickness and Infirmity, or other just Cause of Absence.
Pàgina 33 - f is fixed that he bear sway till one arise More wicked than himself— that moment seals him. Then comes the Paphlagonian — the hide-seller — The man of claws, whose Toice outroars Cycloborus.f Nic.
Pàgina 100 - ... filled with long tables, crowded with guests ; on the tables is spread a feast, described in a single word, but that word fills seven or eight lines, being compounded of the names of all the dishes in the hall, representing philologically what we call philanthropically the solidarity of society. " Limpets, oysters, salt fish, And of skate, too, a dish, Lampreys, with the remains Of sharp sauce and birds' brains, With honey so luscious, Plump blackbirds and thrushes, Cocks...
Pàgina 99 - This here, gentlemen, is a boiled goose, served up in a sauce composed of pepper, lovage, coriander, mint, rue, anchovies, and oil : I wish for your sakes, gentlemen, it was one of the geese of Ferrara, so much celebrated among the ancients for the magnitude of their livers, one of which is said to have weighed upwards of two pounds : with this food, exquisite as it was, did the tyrant...
Pàgina 33 - ... citizen had succeeded in concluding and maintaining a separate peace. With respect to the play of the Knights (or Demagogues), the very conversation out of which it originated is to be traced in the passage from line 125 to 144 of the original. The conversation turned upon ' the degradation of the democracy since the death of Pericles, whose successors in administration had been a lintseller, Eucrates, a sheepseller, Lysicles, and a leatherseller, Cleon, TSJOTrcoXtij — Trpo/S«WcuXrij — /3upo-oTrcoX»)j,...