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... writing . At one time I was inclined to think the whole catalogue more accurately divisible into four classes ; but the line of demarcation between the third and fourth would have been so much fainter than those which mark off the first ...
... writing . At one time I was inclined to think the whole catalogue more accurately divisible into four classes ; but the line of demarcation between the third and fourth would have been so much fainter than those which mark off the first ...
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... written in his sixty - fifth year by the august Roman hand of Pierre Corneille ; a lyric symphony of spirit and of song fulfilled with all the colour and all the music that autumn could steal from spring if October had leave to go a ...
... written in his sixty - fifth year by the august Roman hand of Pierre Corneille ; a lyric symphony of spirit and of song fulfilled with all the colour and all the music that autumn could steal from spring if October had leave to go a ...
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... written wholly or mainly in ballad verse of four- teen syllables - of the Kings Darius and Cambyses , the Promos and Cassandra of Whetstone , or the Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes of George Peele . If we turn from these abortions of ...
... written wholly or mainly in ballad verse of four- teen syllables - of the Kings Darius and Cambyses , the Promos and Cassandra of Whetstone , or the Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes of George Peele . If we turn from these abortions of ...
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... written in blank verse ; an error which I can only attribute to the prevalence of a groundless assumption that whatever is neither prose nor rhyme must of necessity be definable as blank verse . measure , I must repeat , which was ...
... written in blank verse ; an error which I can only attribute to the prevalence of a groundless assumption that whatever is neither prose nor rhyme must of necessity be definable as blank verse . measure , I must repeat , which was ...
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... written wholly or partially in ballad metre and the first plays written in blank verse . The tragedy of Selimus , Emperor of the Turks , published in 1594 , may then serve to indicate this brief and obscure period of transition . scenes ...
... written wholly or partially in ballad metre and the first plays written in blank verse . The tragedy of Selimus , Emperor of the Turks , published in 1594 , may then serve to indicate this brief and obscure period of transition . scenes ...
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