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... lines , before the story proper begins . This method is even more elaborately developed in the Hous of Fame . In fact the poet is within twenty lines of the end of Book I before he begins to tell his story . There are sixty - five lines ...
... lines , before the story proper begins . This method is even more elaborately developed in the Hous of Fame . In fact the poet is within twenty lines of the end of Book I before he begins to tell his story . There are sixty - five lines ...
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... lines -61 per cent . of the tale - are patches of rhetoric . Even this high percentage is perhaps too low , for the 25 lines of description devoted to Phebus are so conventional , so much in accordance with rhetorical formulas , that ...
... lines -61 per cent . of the tale - are patches of rhetoric . Even this high percentage is perhaps too low , for the 25 lines of description devoted to Phebus are so conventional , so much in accordance with rhetorical formulas , that ...
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... lines , preceded by 109 lines , all but 39 of which are purely rhetorical utterances of the narrator , and followed by 10 lines of rhetorical applica- tion . But both stories are , as artistic compositions , pretty crude and show no ...
... lines , preceded by 109 lines , all but 39 of which are purely rhetorical utterances of the narrator , and followed by 10 lines of rhetorical applica- tion . But both stories are , as artistic compositions , pretty crude and show no ...
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 192526 | 3 |
ON THE COLOPHONS AND MARGINALIA OF IRISH SCRIBES BY THE | 11 |
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