We can trace obligations to Meleager, Theocritus, Apollonius Rhodius and other Alexandrines, and amongst earlier writers to Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus and others. [Please select]
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"Nay, on my faith," said the King, "I like these rattling, rolling Alexandrines." [Please select]
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That the translations of Homer and Virgil in long Alexandrines were but prose. [Please select]
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The corresponding infatuation in the theatre is for dramas in alexandrines; and alexandrines are far worse than English blank verse, which is saying a good deal. [Please select]
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Corneille wrote alexandrines as Dryden wrote heroic couplets, in a virile, stately, handsome and withal human way; and Racine had tenderness and beauty as well. [Please select]
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