 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitrion's being tor. mented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner. But I could not... | |
 | Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1816 - 374 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part...the same manner. But I could not easily pardon the liberiy the poet has taken of larding his play with not only indecent expressions, hul such gross words... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 396 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name : and the greatest part of the comedy turn« upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 510 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of -a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 512 pages
...and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 21 diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 510 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1825 - 352 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name : and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Latin literature - 1827 - 368 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money — a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 452 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1848 - 336 pages
...cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name ; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitryon's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.... | |
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