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... verse Sir Thomas Wyatt - His metrical innovations - Earl of Surrey - His use of decasyllabic blank verse · PAGE 49 CHAPTER VI - EARLY TUDOR PROSE Lord Berners ' Froissart - Fabyan's New Chronicles- Richard Grafton - John Leland - Andrew ...
... verse Sir Thomas Wyatt - His metrical innovations - Earl of Surrey - His use of decasyllabic blank verse · PAGE 49 CHAPTER VI - EARLY TUDOR PROSE Lord Berners ' Froissart - Fabyan's New Chronicles- Richard Grafton - John Leland - Andrew ...
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... verse satire . It is an age when the class of readers was im- mensely enlarged . Men began to collect in coffee - houses and divert themselves with social essays and moral satires . This era of red brick ushers in an age of Whig ...
... verse satire . It is an age when the class of readers was im- mensely enlarged . Men began to collect in coffee - houses and divert themselves with social essays and moral satires . This era of red brick ushers in an age of Whig ...
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... verse , called the " neck verse . " He mumbled some- thing , and the clerk said the regular formula , Legit ut clericus . " It is now used only for ornamental purposes . The old practice of using u and v interchangeably , v at the begin ...
... verse , called the " neck verse . " He mumbled some- thing , and the clerk said the regular formula , Legit ut clericus . " It is now used only for ornamental purposes . The old practice of using u and v interchangeably , v at the begin ...
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... verse . Of the poems once ascribed to Chaucer , the two most notable and the most pleasing are The Court of Love and The Flower and the Leaf . The former was added to the canon by John Stow in 1561 ; the latter was first printed as ...
... verse . Of the poems once ascribed to Chaucer , the two most notable and the most pleasing are The Court of Love and The Flower and the Leaf . The former was added to the canon by John Stow in 1561 ; the latter was first printed as ...
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... verse . From them he also learned the conventional poetic amble , the concomitant qualities of which were tendencies to incoherence , to garrulity , and to interminable repetition , degenerating at worst into the merest gabble . From ...
... verse . From them he also learned the conventional poetic amble , the concomitant qualities of which were tendencies to incoherence , to garrulity , and to interminable repetition , degenerating at worst into the merest gabble . From ...
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