Book/Printed Material The comedies of Terence,
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Image 1 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 2 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 3 of The comedies of Terence, eee Gawdy Hall- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 4 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 5 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 6 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 7 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 8 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 9 of The comedies of Terence, Â 7- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 10 of The comedies of Terence, T HB F COMEDTI1ZEâS OF TERENCE Tranflated into FamiLiaR BLANK VERSE By GEORGE COLMAN Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim Scilicet uni wquus virtuti atque ejus amicis Quin ubi 6 a vulgo et…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 11 of The comedies of Terence,- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 12 of The comedies of Terence, PREFACE NN attempt to give a new tranflation of the A Comedies of Terence will I believe fcarce be thought to demand an apology Ber ânard and Hoole were obfolete even in…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 13 of The comedies of Terence, h P RE F AC E as I thought it expedient to confult I have made all the ule that the different genius of our under takings would admit When the Beauties…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 14 of The comedies of Terence, P ÂR BE Â A GC FE 1i1 her will and to force the author to wear the foik inftead of the bufkin To thefe and the like objections the reader might…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 15 of The comedies of Terence, iv PRB RE ACE elf fays Antftotle direCted the writers to abandon the capering Tetrameter and to embrace that mea fure that was moft accommodated to the purpofes of dialogue whence the…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 16 of The comedies of Terence, a PPR EBRB A C E v der Philemon c it is evident that meafure was fuppofed to be as neceflary to Comedy as Tra gedy In this as well as in…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 17 of The comedies of Terence, vi a BP BP A Cl FE Some doubt if Comedy be juftly thought A real poem fince it may be wrought In flile and fubje without fire or force And bate…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 18 of The comedies of Terence, eeedtiea PREF AGE vii capital beauties into their compofitions while the fame fpecies of excellence could not poliibly enter into the comedies of a later period when the Mufe âhad conftrained herfelt…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 19 of The comedies of Terence, vi FRET ANGER into profe If it 1s too true of tranflations in gene ral according to the fevere and witty cenfure of Don Quixote in his vifit to the printinghoufe at…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 20 of The comedies of Terence, Rr ny r P RE B A C E 1X fame century in the reign of Charles IX Baif an old French Poet tranflated the Eunuch of Te rence into French Verfe…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 21 of The comedies of Terence, x PR BPA OR tranflated by Moliere with any profe tranflation will be immediately convinced of their great fupe riority The Englith Blank Verfe 1s happily conceiv ed in the true fpirit…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 22 of The comedies of Terence, P REP ACE xi tween the file of Horace and Virgil and yet they both ufe the fame meafure But not to dwell on argument and rather to produce irrefragable proofs of…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 23 of The comedies of Terence, X11 Iq 44 144 cc  âC â Cc  â â â â 114 â âC â â â PRT FACE nerves of poetry which was in a good meafure owing…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 24 of The comedies of Terence, P REE A CE xiii great meafure owing to the almolt total exclufion of Blank Verfe from modern compofitions Tragedy excepted The common ufe of an elevated dition in Comedy where the…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 25 of The comedies of Terence, xiv P BR EEA Cn agrees with Horaceâs charalter of the irregular iambicks of the Roman Comedy â ifs quod pede certo Differt fermoni fermo merus Thefe and the like confiderations had…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 26 of The comedies of Terence, P BR E BP A â E Xv have failed in the undertaking I will venture to fay that my ill fuccefs is entirely owing to the lamenefs of the execution of…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 27 of The comedies of Terence, xvi PRET A CT in his Preface abovecited while he gives fo jut an account of the diÂtion ufed in the old comedies of our own theatre fhould yet peak fo unad…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 28 of The comedies of Terence, âPREP AC I xvil But not only the opinion of many ingenious men among the moderns as well as the living tef timony of the plays themfelves but alfo the ex prefs…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 29 of The comedies of Terence, xvill P R BE F A LC Comick Mufe may reciprocally aflume each otherâs tone Verlibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult Indignatur item privatis ac prope focco Dignis carminibus narrari coena…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 30 of The comedies of Terence, PR BFA C I xix âWhateâer the fubjet be on which you write Give each thing its due place and time aright Yet Comedy fometimes may raife her ftile And angry Chremes…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 31 of The comedies of Terence, xx PR EE ACE Â of itlelf and 1s purely Englithâ 1 have therefore given the paflages in queftion merely as refemblances leaving the reader to make his own comment on them…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 32 of The comedies of Terence, SDR LEP oA WCE He But no manâs virtue nor fufficiency âTo be fo moral when he fhall endure The like himelf Much Ado about Nothing Befides the refemblance of particular paflages…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 33 of The comedies of Terence, ii PRs pA gigâ Tranio Mafter it is no time to chide yOu now AffeCtion 1s not rated from the heart If love hath touchâd âyou nought remains but fo Redime te…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 34 of The comedies of Terence, P RR EFAC FL XX1ii neation of charalters as the peculiar excellence of Terence who in the time of Auguftus was equally admired for the artful contexture and judi cious conduÃt of…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 35 of The comedies of Terence, PPROTPh ASCE XX1V For more particular obfervations on our Poet the reader 1s referred to the Notes on the feveral plays As for the Notes themfelves many of them being taken from…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 36 of The comedies of Terence, P Bom o2 A C1 Su fo is the Hypercritick as fallible as the Critick But each manâs underftandmg fuch as it 1s muft be his guide and he who has not…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 37 of The comedies of Terence, XXV1 P R BE BF A CC Â well as to mylelf Whenever it fees the light it hall be as perfect as I am able to make it In the mean…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 38 of The comedies of Terence, PORE UREA AO YE xxvii were written and exhibited by Terence they fucceeded each other in the original courfe of reprefentation at Rome as follows The Andrian The StepMother The SelfTormentor The…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 39 of The comedies of Terence, XXViii PP RIB YEPEA SCE Agreeably to this notion fhe places the Step Mother the laft in her colleGion which has in duced her followers to do the fame thing but the…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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Image 40 of The comedies of Terence, Pp Ri E F Ay Co Bu XXIX and the two laft the StepMother and Phormio from Apollodorus allowing for this variation they are ranged as nearly as may be according to…- Contributor: Terence - Flexney, William - Colman, George - Davies, Thomas - De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham) - Holmes, John - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnston, W. (William) - Davis, Robert - Mills, P. M. - Becket, Thomas
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About this Item
Title
- The comedies of Terence,
Names
- Terence.
- Colman, George, 1732-1794, editor, translator.
- Becket, Thomas, bookseller.
- Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785, bookseller.
- Davis, Robert, active 1764-1775, bookseller.
- De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham), bookseller.
- Flexney, William, -1808, bookseller.
- Johnston, W. (William), -1804, bookseller.
- Holmes, John, -1831, former owner.
- Mills, P. M., former owner.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London, Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand; W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street; W. Flexney, Grays-Inn Gate, Holborn; R. Davis, in Picadilly [sic]; T. Davies in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1765.
Headings
- - Terence--Translations into English
- - England--London
Notes
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1759
- - English short title catalogue, T137838
- - LC copy: Provenance: Bookplates of P. M. Mills and Rev. John Holmes.
- - LAC ael 2019-10-04 update (1 card)
- - LAC ddw 2022-04-04 update (1 card)
Medium
- lxi, 619 p. plates. 27 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PA6756.A1 C6 1765
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 48038117
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- image
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Contributor
- Becket, Thomas
- Colman, George
- Davies, Thomas
- Davis, Robert
- De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham)
- Flexney, William
- Holmes, John
- Johnston, W. (William)
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Mills, P. M.
- Terence