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  • For to an historicall poeme no certain number is limited, but as the matter fals out: also a _distick_ or couple of verses is not to be accompted a staffe, but serues for a continuance as we see in Elegie,

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • He had entered as a competitor for a "Tragicall poeme," but was too sportsmanlike to seek victory by art necromantic.

    Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

  • For to an historicall poeme no certain number is limited, but as the matter fals out: also a distick or couple of verses is not to be accompted a staffe, but serues for a continuance as we see in Elegie, Epitaph, Epigramme or such meetres, of plaine concord not harmonically entertangled, as some other songs of more delicate musick be.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • And this kind of poeme was called _Comedy_, and followed next after the

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • And this kind of poeme was called Comedy, and followed next after the Satyre, & by that occasion was somwhat sharpe and bitter after the nature of the Satyre, openly & by expresse names taxing men more maliciously and impudently then became, so as they were enforced for feare of quarell & blame to disguise their players with strange apparell, and by colouring their faces and carying hatts & capps of diuerse fashions to make them selues lesse knowen.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Excellent poeme Nassamat … Il semblerait que je ne soit pas le seul addict du Maroc!

    Global Voices in English » Maghreb: Views on Iran 2009

  • Went to lunch and was surprisingly given copy of Bernard Heidsieck's poeme-partition "X".

    swoonrocket jms 2009

  • Ich dide seke to combyne a referaunce to the fyne poeme Widsyth and also to a shirte ich haue seen of oold that seyde 'dont make me get my flying monkeys.'

    Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck Richard Nokes 2006

  • Renommé Raven parce qu'il me fait penser a un corbeau et The Raven est un poeme d'Edgar Allan Poe ecriavin que j'apprecie beaucoup!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • The last was Les Dieux dechus, poeme en 20 chants, par

    The Newcomes 2006

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