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... lines , and of course affords space for a very spirited and graphic portrayal of the physical aspect , and an outline of the moral features of each . The latter part of the description is generally more rapidly sketched , because it was ...
... lines , and of course affords space for a very spirited and graphic portrayal of the physical aspect , and an outline of the moral features of each . The latter part of the description is generally more rapidly sketched , because it was ...
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... lines , he has only translated 270 ( less than one eighth ) from Boccaccio ; only 374 more lines bear a general likeness to Boccaccio ; and only 132 more a slight like- ness . ' ( Furnivall , Temporary Preface to Six - Text Edition of ...
... lines , he has only translated 270 ( less than one eighth ) from Boccaccio ; only 374 more lines bear a general likeness to Boccaccio ; and only 132 more a slight like- ness . ' ( Furnivall , Temporary Preface to Six - Text Edition of ...
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... lines , ' Dou Coc et dou Werpil , ' in the poems of Marie of France , which again is bor- rowed from the fifth chapter of the old French metrical Roman de Renart , entitled ' Se conme Renart prist Chantecler le Coc . ' Chaucer's English ...
... lines , ' Dou Coc et dou Werpil , ' in the poems of Marie of France , which again is bor- rowed from the fifth chapter of the old French metrical Roman de Renart , entitled ' Se conme Renart prist Chantecler le Coc . ' Chaucer's English ...
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... line . ' Gelic was he tham leohtum steorrum , lof sceolde he drihtnes wyrcean , dyran sceolde he his dreamas on heofonum , and sceolde his drihtne thancian , thas leanes the he him on tham leohte gescerede , thonne lete he his hine ...
... line . ' Gelic was he tham leohtum steorrum , lof sceolde he drihtnes wyrcean , dyran sceolde he his dreamas on heofonum , and sceolde his drihtne thancian , thas leanes the he him on tham leohte gescerede , thonne lete he his hine ...
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... lines containing five accents . In this metre we have ten syllables ; but we often find eleven , and occasionally nine . Of these variations the former is obtained by the addition of an unaccented syllable at the end of a line b . Him ...
... lines containing five accents . In this metre we have ten syllables ; but we often find eleven , and occasionally nine . Of these variations the former is obtained by the addition of an unaccented syllable at the end of a line b . Him ...
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