 | Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 450 pages
...Payne's dictum (ix. 383) that "the Seja-form is utterly foreign to the genius of English prose, and its preservation would be fatal to all vigour and harmony of style." The English translator of Palmerin of England, Anthony Munday, attempted it in places with great success... | |
 | 1901 - 446 pages
...wrongly, to the conclusion that it was undesirable to do so, as it seemed to me that the sf/a ',oim was utterly foreign to the genius of English prose...harmony of style. This letter is from him whom passion waste* away and whom desire doth slay and misery destroys him and dismay, him who of life despairs... | |
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... above mentioned, rendered in the jingle of the original. It is evident that it would have been by no means difficult to keep up the imitation throughout, but, upon consideration, I came, rightly or wrongly, to the conclusion that it was undesirable... 