A Metrical Version of The Acharnians, The Knights and The BirdsG. Routledge and Sons, 1887 - 281 من الصفحات |
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Acharnians Agoracritus amongst Amphitheus ancient appears Aristophanes Assembly Athenian Athens attend audience bawl behold birds bring burlesque character CHOR Chorus CINESIAS CLEON cloth Coloured comedy comic poets command contrive DAUGH deities delight DEMOSTHENES DEMUS Dicæopolis dish envoys EPIRREMA Euelpides Euripides exhibited Exit father Fcap feast Frere gilt edges give gods HARRISON WEIR hear heaven Hercules Hoopoe humour Illustrations instance IRIS J. G. WOOD John Hookham Frere Jove Jupiter keep kind king Knights Lamachus look Lysistratus mean Megara Megarian mighty Natural History Neptune never Nicias Oh dear Oracle palæstra Paphlagonian Parabasis peace PEIS Peisthetairus person Plates play poor Prytaneum Pylos rascal roast rogue sacrifice SAUSAGE-SELLER scene SEMICHORUS serve SHAMARTABAS slave song sovereign Spartans speak speech supposed tell ye THEB there's things Thrace tone Triballian villain vulgar Wee wée Whilst wings wish words
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الصفحة 97 - I repeat ! Oftener than I can repeat it, has the rogue and villain cheated. Close around him, left and right ; spit upon him, spurn and smite : Spit upon him as you see : spurn and spit at him like me.
الصفحة 234 - There came a body of thirty thousand cranes, (I won't be positive, there might be more) With stones from Africa in their craws and gizzards, Which the stone-curlews and stone-chatterers Worked into shape and finished.
الصفحة 85 - Would not you please to take a little refreshment? And there's that nice hot broth — And here's the threepence You left behind you — And would not you order supper ? " Moreover, when we get things out of compliment As a present for our master, he contrives To snatch 'em and serve 'em up before our faces. I'd made a Spartan cake at Pylos lately, And...
الصفحة 98 - Yes; assault, insult, abuse me! This is the return I find For the noble testimony, the memorial I designed: Meaning to propose proposals for a monument of stone, On the which your late achievements should be carved and neatly done.
الصفحة 166 - Moreover, if a couple of orators Were pleading in your presence ; one proposing To equip a fleet, his rival arguing To get the same supplies distributed To the jurymen, the patron of the juries Carried the day. But why do you hang your head so ? What makes you shuffle about ? Can't ye stand still ? DEM.
الصفحة 93 - I'm come from a common, ordinary kindred, Of the lower order. Dem. What a happiness ! — What a footing will it give ye ! What a groundwork For confidence and favour at your outset ! SS But bless ye ! only consider my education ! I can but barely read ... in a kind of a way. Dem. That makes against ye ! — The only thing against ye — The being able to read in any way...
الصفحة 278 - The Common Objects of the Sea-Shore. With Hints for the Aquarium. By the Rev. JG WOOD. The FINE EDITION, with the Illustrations by GB SOWERBY, beautifully printed in Colours. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3*.
الصفحة 58 - Nic. (with great gravity). A Boeotian might be capable of fixing it On the back of a Cockroach, who might float with it Into the Arsenal, with a north-east wind, And if once the fire caught hold of a single vessel, The whole would be in a blaze!
الصفحة 278 - British Entomology. Containing a familiar and Technical Description of the INSECTS most common to the localities of the British Isles.
الصفحة 211 - Up to the thunderous ^ther ascending. Whilst all that breathe on earth beneath, The beasts of the wood, the plain and the flood, In panic amazement are crouching and bending, With the awful qualm of a sudden calm Ocean and air in silence blending. The ridge of Olympus is sounding on high...