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- noun Plural form of
quatorzain .
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Examples
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Amours in quatorzains (first edition, 1594; revised in subsequent editions of 1599, 1600, 1602, 1605 and 1619):
no-yes : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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_Ideas Mirrour Amours in quatorzains_ (London, 1594, 4to.p. 51.), which was lent to me about forty years ago, but which I have not seen since.
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He supplied to each poem a prose commentary, in which he not only admitted that every conceit was borrowed, but quoted chapter and verse for its origin from classical literature or from the work of French or Italian sonnetteers. {428a} Two regular quatorzains are prefixed, but to each of the 'passions' there is appended a four-line stanza which gives each poem eighteen instead of the regular fourteen lines.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Centurie_, 1582; cf. 'crazed quatorzains' in Thomas Nash's preface to his edition of Sidney's _Astrophel and Stella_, 1591; and _Amours in
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Watson is congratulated on 'scaling the skies in lofty _quatorzains_' in verses before his _Passionate
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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_Tears of Fancy_ are regular quatorzains, the pieces composing the
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Drummond intersperses his quatorzains with madrigals, lyrical pieces of various lengths, and even with what he calls "songs," -- that is to say, long poems in the heroic couplet.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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The quatorzains of the _Tears of Fancy_ are more attractive in form and less artificial in structure and phraseology, but it must be remembered that by their time Sidney's sonnets were known and Spenser had written much.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Its contents are called not sonnets but canzons, though most of them are orthodox quatorzains somewhat oddly rhymed and rhythmed.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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They range in form from the sophisticated quatorzains of _The Two
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888
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