Thesʹpis, Thesʹpian
. “The race of learned men,
… . Oft they snatch the pen,
As if inspired, and in a Thespian rage;
Then write.”
“Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sang ballads from a cart.”
Dryden: Prologue to Sophonisba.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.