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Page 260
... give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . To die or kill you , is the alternative , Rather than take your life , I will not live . ' Observe , how prettily our author chops logick in heroick verse . Three such fustian , canting ...
... give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . To die or kill you , is the alternative , Rather than take your life , I will not live . ' Observe , how prettily our author chops logick in heroick verse . Three such fustian , canting ...
Page 307
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
Page 353
... give the glory of this away from the poet , and to place it upon the actors , seems unjust . One reason is , because whatever actors they have found , the event has been the same ; that is , the same passions have been always moved ...
... give the glory of this away from the poet , and to place it upon the actors , seems unjust . One reason is , because whatever actors they have found , the event has been the same ; that is , the same passions have been always moved ...
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