Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... 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 304
... gives his master Charles . His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He ...
... gives his master Charles . His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He ...
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... 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 ...
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