This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ROMAN ACTOR. ACT I. SCENE I. The Theatre. Enter Paris, Latinus, and iEsopus. JEsop. What do we act to day? Lat. Agave's frenzy, With Pentheus' bloody end. Par. It skills not what The times are dull, and all that we receive Will hardly satisfy the day's expense. The Greeks, to whom we owe the first ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ROMAN ACTOR. ACT I. SCENE I. The Theatre. Enter Paris, Latinus, and iEsopus. JEsop. What do we act to day? Lat. Agave's frenzy, With Pentheus' bloody end. Par. It skills not what The times are dull, and all that we receive Will hardly satisfy the day's expense. The Greeks, to whom we owe the first invention Both of the buskin'd scene, and humble sock, . That reign in every noble family, Declaim -against us: and our theatre,2 1 Par. It skills not] i. e. matters not. So in the Custom of the Country: "Some pursue *' The murderer; yet if he scape, it skills not; "Were I a prince, I would reward him for't." . f, . ---- and our theatre, Great Pompey's work, &t. ] The old copy reads amphitheatre, for which I have taken the liberty to substitute theatre. Mas* singer could not be ignorant that the former was not " the work of Pompey;' nor that a building appropriated solely to combats of gladiators, wild beasts, &c. was not properly adapted to the icenical exhibitions of Paris and his associates. Not to Great Tompey's work, that hath given full delight Both to the eye asd ear of fifty thousand Spectators in one day, as if it were Some unknown desart, or great Rome unpeopled, Is quite forsaken. Lat. Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained; and they that shun us, Practise, m private, sports the stews would hlush at. A litter born by eight Liburnian slaves, To buy diseases from a glorious strumpet, The most censorious of our Roman gentry, Nay, of the garded robe,3 the senators, Esteem an easy purchase. Par. Yet grudge us,4 That with delight join profit, and endeavour To build their minds up fair, and on the stage Decipher to the life what honours wait On good and glorious actions, and the shame insist that the work for which...
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Add this copy of The Plays, Volume 2... to cart. $52.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.