The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 55
... Suidas , others for Libanius ; but most agree in ascribing it to some one of the Greek fophifts , so that it is not to be disguised that just doubts are to be entertained of it's veracity in point of fact . There may be much ingenuity ...
... Suidas , others for Libanius ; but most agree in ascribing it to some one of the Greek fophifts , so that it is not to be disguised that just doubts are to be entertained of it's veracity in point of fact . There may be much ingenuity ...
Page 66
... Suidas fays he was author of no less than two hundred and forty - five dramas , and I find the titles of one hundred and thirteen of this collection even now upon record ; this proves that he possessed a very copious vein of invention ...
... Suidas fays he was author of no less than two hundred and forty - five dramas , and I find the titles of one hundred and thirteen of this collection even now upon record ; this proves that he possessed a very copious vein of invention ...
Page 92
... Suidas , Stobæus , Theophraf- tus and others , and the titles of nine of his co- medies are preserved in those authors with fome fcraps of his dialogue . Aristotle relates that in his comedy of The Hippocentaur he introduced a rhapsody ...
... Suidas , Stobæus , Theophraf- tus and others , and the titles of nine of his co- medies are preserved in those authors with fome fcraps of his dialogue . Aristotle relates that in his comedy of The Hippocentaur he introduced a rhapsody ...
Page 97
... Suidas enu- merates only four and twenty of his comedies , Athenæus contends that he was the author of fifty , and the names of all these are still upon the lift . He flourished in Olymp . CI , which is fo VOL . IV . high H high in the ...
... Suidas enu- merates only four and twenty of his comedies , Athenæus contends that he was the author of fifty , and the names of all these are still upon the lift . He flourished in Olymp . CI , which is fo VOL . IV . high H high in the ...
Page 107
... Suidas , Laertius and others teftify . His comedies were found after his death in a chest , where they had been long miffing and much regretted ; we have to the amount of fourteen of their titles , and are further informed that he was ...
... Suidas , Laertius and others teftify . His comedies were found after his death in a chest , where they had been long miffing and much regretted ; we have to the amount of fourteen of their titles , and are further informed that he was ...
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