Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Thespis, Thespian

Dramatic. Thespis was the father of Greek tragedy.

The race of learned men,
... oft they snatch the pen,
As if inspired, and in a Thespian rage;
Then write.

Thomson: Castle of Indolence, c. i. 52.

Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sang ballads from a cart.

Dryden: Prologue to Sophonisba.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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