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Page 12
... verse and prose , setting forth in general , the vanity of the world , and , in particular , predictions of the ruin of Rome and Antichrist : and it enforced its lessons by illustrative woodcuts . In this strange jumble are pre- served ...
... verse and prose , setting forth in general , the vanity of the world , and , in particular , predictions of the ruin of Rome and Antichrist : and it enforced its lessons by illustrative woodcuts . In this strange jumble are pre- served ...
Page 13
... verse of Du Bellay's unknown translator into rime , the Dutchman who dates his Theatre of Worldlings on the 25th May , 1569 , must have employed the promising and fluent school boy , to furnish him with an English versified form , of ...
... verse of Du Bellay's unknown translator into rime , the Dutchman who dates his Theatre of Worldlings on the 25th May , 1569 , must have employed the promising and fluent school boy , to furnish him with an English versified form , of ...
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... verse , by casting away its natural habits and rhythms , and imposing on it the laws of the classical metres . In this he was not singular . The professed treatises of this time on poetry , of which there were several , assume the same ...
... verse , by casting away its natural habits and rhythms , and imposing on it the laws of the classical metres . In this he was not singular . The professed treatises of this time on poetry , of which there were several , assume the same ...
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