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A New Translation, chiefly in Blank Verse; with a complete Introduction and copious Notes.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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This last quotation, interesting in itself as containing a recommendation to Queen Elizabeth to marry, or at least name her successor, will also serve as a specimen of the new verse, Blank Verse, which here, for the first time, finds its way into English drama.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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John Davidson's _Ballad in Blank Verse on the Making of a Poet_ is
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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The hero of John Davidson's _Ballad in Blank Verse on the Making of a
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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On Geography, Parsing, Blank Verse, Mythology, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, Botany, and the French language, the classes recited with uncommon readiness and accuracy, and were heard with interest and satisfaction.
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915
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In a composed frame (and in Blank Verse) _Orestes and Electra_ repeat the distinct prayer for Vengeance and the death of Aegisthus and then address themselves to the means.
Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886
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But there is a sense of Vengeance being at hand, Erinnys and the Curses of the slain; they make the heart quiver: _the Dirge crescendoes till it breaks into the 'Arian rhythm,' a foreign funeral rhythm with violent gestures (proper to the Chorus as Asiatics); and so as a climax breaks up into two semi-choruses: one sings of woe, the other of vengeance, and then the formal Dirge terminates and the Blank Verse recommences_.
Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886
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[Political hit.] {747} _The Chorus breaking into Strophic Lyrics_ vow vengeance and long train of ills on the city for this, Athene (_in Blank Verse_) propitiating them, and pleading that the cause has been fairly tried.
Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886
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Lyric, into Rhyme, which strikes a more Lyric Chord, I have found it much harder to satisfy myself than with the good old Blank Verse, which I used to manage easily enough.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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Sonnets, and he equally disliked Blank Verse, and Odes.
Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace Anna Seward 1775
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