Excerpt from Terence, Vol. 2 of 2: With an English Translation The old playwright, being unable to divert our play wright from his calling and consign him to leisure, trues hard words to scare him from writing. He keeps declaring that our man's plays are thin and trivial compositions, and that is because he has not introduced a mad stripling seeing a hind in flight and hounds giving chase and the beast begging and imploring aid.l If the old playwright had grasped that the original success of his drama was due more to ...
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Excerpt from Terence, Vol. 2 of 2: With an English Translation The old playwright, being unable to divert our play wright from his calling and consign him to leisure, trues hard words to scare him from writing. He keeps declaring that our man's plays are thin and trivial compositions, and that is because he has not introduced a mad stripling seeing a hind in flight and hounds giving chase and the beast begging and imploring aid.l If the old playwright had grasped that the original success of his drama was due more to his company than to himself, he would show much less boldness in his attacks. It may be said or at least thought that if the old playwright had not given the challenge, the new playwright would lack material for his prologue as having no one to attack. The answer must be that competition for the prize is open to all followers of dramatic art. The old man's wish was to drive his rival from his calling into starving. Our poet's aim was to answer, not to provoke. Kind terms should have met with kind terms in return. As it is the old playwright must reckon that he is paid in his own coin. I shall here end what I have to say of him though he puts no end to his offences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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