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Show filAch. Verc Blank 01 nnrhymed is that form of heroic verso which is commonly employed em-ployed in Eirglish dramatic and epit poetry. It was iutroduced by the Ear' of Surrey, who died in 1547, in hiw translation tho second and fourth books of "JEneid. ' It was first employed em-ployed in the dranm in Sackvillo and Norton's tragedy of "Perrox and Por nis play of "Tambnrlriine the Great" that it became the form regularly employed em-ployed in the metrical drama, which it has since, with only occasional intervals, inter-vals, remained. After Milton's use of it in "Paradise Lost" it was widolj extended ex-tended to many other classes of compo-hifcjon. compo-hifcjon. Brooklyn Eagle. |