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... rule did they guide its development ? There was one rule only , a rule that yet remains a powerful influence in every field of artistic expression : rhythm . It is easy to see how logical this principle was to the earliest men . Were ...
... rule did they guide its development ? There was one rule only , a rule that yet remains a powerful influence in every field of artistic expression : rhythm . It is easy to see how logical this principle was to the earliest men . Were ...
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... rule for alternate periods . Eteocles began , but when the time came for him to yield the throne for Polyneices ' period of rule , he refused . Polyneices , thus betrayed , brought the armies of seven allied chieftains against Thebes ...
... rule for alternate periods . Eteocles began , but when the time came for him to yield the throne for Polyneices ' period of rule , he refused . Polyneices , thus betrayed , brought the armies of seven allied chieftains against Thebes ...
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... rules . They wrote for too limited an audience , in the main , and the standards of taste under Louis the Thirteenth , Fourteenth , and Fifteenth were too much dominated by a decadent court to have the freedom of the Elizabethan drama ...
... rules . They wrote for too limited an audience , in the main , and the standards of taste under Louis the Thirteenth , Fourteenth , and Fifteenth were too much dominated by a decadent court to have the freedom of the Elizabethan drama ...
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