The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 149
... the gleanings and broken fragments of the Greek stage had not escaped him ; in the very first speech of Volpone's , which opens the co- medy , L3 medy , and in which he rapturously addresses himself to N ° 110. THE OBSERVER . 149.
... the gleanings and broken fragments of the Greek stage had not escaped him ; in the very first speech of Volpone's , which opens the co- medy , L3 medy , and in which he rapturously addresses himself to N ° 110. THE OBSERVER . 149.
Page 150
... Volpone is speaking to his gold- Thou being the best of things and far transcending All ftile of joy in children , parents , friends- Thy looks when they to Venus did ascribe , They should have given her twenty thousand Cupids , Such ...
... Volpone is speaking to his gold- Thou being the best of things and far transcending All ftile of joy in children , parents , friends- Thy looks when they to Venus did ascribe , They should have given her twenty thousand Cupids , Such ...
Page 151
... Volpone , who gives his name to the piece , with a fox - like craftiness deludes and gulls their hopes by the agency of his inimitable Parafite , or ( as the Greek and Roman authors expressed it ) by his Fly , his Mofca ; and in this ...
... Volpone , who gives his name to the piece , with a fox - like craftiness deludes and gulls their hopes by the agency of his inimitable Parafite , or ( as the Greek and Roman authors expressed it ) by his Fly , his Mofca ; and in this ...
Page 152
... Volpone , is one of the happiest contrivances , which could poffibly be devised , because at the same time that it produces the catastrophe , it does not sacrifice Mofca's character in the man- ner most villains are sacrificed in comedy ...
... Volpone , is one of the happiest contrivances , which could poffibly be devised , because at the same time that it produces the catastrophe , it does not sacrifice Mofca's character in the man- ner most villains are sacrificed in comedy ...
Page 153
... Volpone's unseasonable insults to the very persons , who had witnessed falsely in his defence , and even to the very Ad- vocate , who had so fuccessfully defended him ? Is * it in character for a man of his deep cunning and long reach ...
... Volpone's unseasonable insults to the very persons , who had witnessed falsely in his defence , and even to the very Ad- vocate , who had so fuccessfully defended him ? Is * it in character for a man of his deep cunning and long reach ...
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