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... Verse Other Early Dramas . Second Stage of the Regular Drama : -Peele ; Greene 453 459 464 Marlow 466 · Lyly ; Kyd ; Lodge 469 Earlier Elizabethan Prose : -Lyly ; Sidney ; Spenser ; Nash ; etc. 471 English Hexameter Verse . 477 Edmund ...
... Verse Other Early Dramas . Second Stage of the Regular Drama : -Peele ; Greene 453 459 464 Marlow 466 · Lyly ; Kyd ; Lodge 469 Earlier Elizabethan Prose : -Lyly ; Sidney ; Spenser ; Nash ; etc. 471 English Hexameter Verse . 477 Edmund ...
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... verse as verse remains not the less for our ears and hearts wholly voiceless . When it can be distinguished from prose at all it is only by certain marks or characteristics which may indeed be perceived by the eye , or counted on the ...
... verse as verse remains not the less for our ears and hearts wholly voiceless . When it can be distinguished from prose at all it is only by certain marks or characteristics which may indeed be perceived by the eye , or counted on the ...
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... verse , in Professor Conybeare's Illustrations of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , published in 1826 by his brother , the Rev. W. D. Conybeare . There is likewise an English translation of the whole in rhyme by Professor A. Diedrich Wackerbarth ...
... verse , in Professor Conybeare's Illustrations of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , published in 1826 by his brother , the Rev. W. D. Conybeare . There is likewise an English translation of the whole in rhyme by Professor A. Diedrich Wackerbarth ...
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... verse ( Alfred's claim to which , however , is very doubtful ) , also with an English translation and notes , by the Rev. Samuel Fox , 8vo . Lond . 1835. Alfred's Orosius was first edited , “ with an English translation from the Anglo ...
... verse ( Alfred's claim to which , however , is very doubtful ) , also with an English translation and notes , by the Rev. Samuel Fox , 8vo . Lond . 1835. Alfred's Orosius was first edited , “ with an English translation from the Anglo ...
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... verse , beginning- " Meum est propositum in taberna mori , " is attributed to this " genial archdeacon . " † To Warton's dozen names , or thereby , Mr. Wright , in his account of the writers of the Anglo - Norman Period ( Biog . Brit ...
... verse , beginning- " Meum est propositum in taberna mori , " is attributed to this " genial archdeacon . " † To Warton's dozen names , or thereby , Mr. Wright , in his account of the writers of the Anglo - Norman Period ( Biog . Brit ...
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