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Page 478
... quatorzain of the Elizabethans is , as a rule , made up of three elegiac quatrains followed by a couplet , riming ... quatorzains that do not end with a couplet , and , like Wyatt , he uses the Petrarchan arrangement of the octave ...
... quatorzain of the Elizabethans is , as a rule , made up of three elegiac quatrains followed by a couplet , riming ... quatorzains that do not end with a couplet , and , like Wyatt , he uses the Petrarchan arrangement of the octave ...
Page 479
... quatorzains , to be sure , are on sleep , on the moon , on abstract or religious themes , and there are some in com- mendation of books or addressed to friends or patrons ; but in com- parison with the poems on love the others are few ...
... quatorzains , to be sure , are on sleep , on the moon , on abstract or religious themes , and there are some in com- mendation of books or addressed to friends or patrons ; but in com- parison with the poems on love the others are few ...
Page 480
... quatorzains of his contemporaries ; yet , when contrasted with the sonnets of Milton and Wordsworth , Shakespeare's are seen to have a sweeter , richer , more graceful beauty which stamps them as in- dubitably Elizabethan . Such , in ...
... quatorzains of his contemporaries ; yet , when contrasted with the sonnets of Milton and Wordsworth , Shakespeare's are seen to have a sweeter , richer , more graceful beauty which stamps them as in- dubitably Elizabethan . Such , in ...
Page 481
... quator- zains included in his sonnet anthology were inserted not because of their excellence , for " few " of them " could be found agreeable to modern taste , " but " to illustrate the progressive refinement of this species of ...
... quator- zains included in his sonnet anthology were inserted not because of their excellence , for " few " of them " could be found agreeable to modern taste , " but " to illustrate the progressive refinement of this species of ...
Page 482
... quatorzains in the literature of the period , even in the many poems and essays that laud his plays . Miss Seward , for example , in her numerous discussions of sonnets , apparently mentions those of Shakespeare and Spenser but once ...
... quatorzains in the literature of the period , even in the many poems and essays that laud his plays . Miss Seward , for example , in her numerous discussions of sonnets , apparently mentions those of Shakespeare and Spenser but once ...
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