Ready to quench its stars in endless, endless night?


_New Monthly Magazine._

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SCENE FROM "THE FROGS OF ARISTOPHANES"

_Translated in the Quarterly Review._

We are not at present breathing the air either of Christ Church meadow
or Trinity gardens; and if our version of a piece of mere pleasantry,
which involves nothing in it beyond a moment's laugh, should be so happy
as to satisfy the 'general reader,' we shall affect 'for the nonce,' to
know nothing of the objections which more scientific persons, the
students of the brilliant Hermann, and acute Reisigius, might be
supposed to make to our arrangement of this little extravaganza.


_Scene, the Acherusian Lake. BACCHUS at the oar in Charon's Boat;
CHARON;--CHORUS OF FROGS; in the background a view of Bacchus's Temple
or Theatre, from which are heard the sound of a scenical
entertainment._

_Semi-chorus_. Croak, croak, croak.

_Semi-chorus_. Croak, croak, croak.