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- noun Plural form of
sestine .
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The sestines and canzons and madrigals of the sonneteers, for all the beauty of their occasional flashes, have nothing like the gracious and sustained majesty of the
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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This collection consists not merely of sonnets but of madrigals, sestines, canzons, and other attempts after Italian masters.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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a hundred and five sonnets altogether, interspersed with twenty-six madrigals, five sestines, twenty-one elegies, three 'canzons,' and twenty
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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