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Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound made by bubbles rising.

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Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones.

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The result this time, while thoroughly amiable, is more tentative and less hilarious, chiefly because the Aristophanic model does not offer as robust comic material as the Plautine.

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Picasso's immense facility and control of gesture is still there; the wit, the Aristophanic irony, the ebullience and the capacity to fix an image remain.

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A Witch Trial at Mount Holly suggests that he felt free to handle scriptures with Aristophanic levity.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.