"Antigonus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dear sir, will suit our abbot as well as a bishophe was a mitred abbot, and at the very top of the rolltake care of these three stepsI know Mac-Cribb denies this, but it is as certain as that he took away my Antigonus, no leave askedyou'll see the name of the Abbot of Trotcosey, Abbas Trottocosiensis, at the head of the rolls of parliament in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuriesthere is very little light here, and these cursed womankind always leave their tubs ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... treatment of the character of the cup-bearer. Does he make it his chief care to enhance the character of the Queen? Note the new characters introduced,—Paulina, Antigonus, Autolycus, the clown (in place of the wife in Greene). Conjecture any reason for his different names. The introduction of Autolycus makes the play more amusing on the stage, but is his part as well planned as Capnio's for leading up to the denouement? Greene lets his mariners off ...
— Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke
... Pyrrhus—how he fought the Romans with elephants, and eventually met a somewhat ignoble death from the hand of an old Argive woman who dropped a tile on his head—but few outside the ranks of historical students probably know anything of his great rival and relative, Antigonus Gonatas, the son of Demetrius the Besieger. Yet there can in reality be no manner of doubt as to which of these two careers should more excite the interest of posterity. Pyrrhus made a great stir in the world ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring |
