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... dactylic and anapastic1 1 I purposely take no note here of the experiments in tumbling rimeless measure made by certain Elizabethans . These were purely movement was , curiously enough , entirely unknown to the Death of Shakespeare . 9.
... dactylic and anapastic1 1 I purposely take no note here of the experiments in tumbling rimeless measure made by certain Elizabethans . These were purely movement was , curiously enough , entirely unknown to the Death of Shakespeare . 9.
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... Elizabethans ) trammelling themselves by a series of pedantic and artificial rules , the function of which was to reduce to a minimum the effects possible to poetic art . But this change of form was accompanied by an equally ...
... Elizabethans ) trammelling themselves by a series of pedantic and artificial rules , the function of which was to reduce to a minimum the effects possible to poetic art . But this change of form was accompanied by an equally ...
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... Elizabethans , and in the hands of their less gifted successors it was fast declining into a mere cave of the Winds . The last efflorescence of the spirit of humanism had taken that strange form which it found in the hands of Lyly ...
... Elizabethans , and in the hands of their less gifted successors it was fast declining into a mere cave of the Winds . The last efflorescence of the spirit of humanism had taken that strange form which it found in the hands of Lyly ...
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... Elizabethans demanded an illusion , but were quite indifferent as to the sober basis of that illusion . Perhaps the only sign which their imaginative literature gave of any germ of realism G. 3 Death of Shakespeare . 33.
... Elizabethans demanded an illusion , but were quite indifferent as to the sober basis of that illusion . Perhaps the only sign which their imaginative literature gave of any germ of realism G. 3 Death of Shakespeare . 33.
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... Elizabethans had been very largely animated by this spirit . It had been written by men of adventure , by soldiers such as Sidney , by buccaneers such as Lodge and Raleigh . Now all that was over ; the poets would go no more a - roving ...
... Elizabethans had been very largely animated by this spirit . It had been written by men of adventure , by soldiers such as Sidney , by buccaneers such as Lodge and Raleigh . Now all that was over ; the poets would go no more a - roving ...
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