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Cothurnus   Listen
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Cothurnus  n.  Same as Cothurn.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cothurnus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dr. Johnson's dictum, poetry is not prose, and that verse only loses its advantage over the latter by invading its province.[307] Verse itself is an absurdity except as an expression of some higher movement of the mind, or as an expedient to lift other minds to the same ideal level. It is the cothurnus which gives language an heroic stature. I have said that one leading characteristic of Spenser's style was its spaciousness, that he habitually dilates rather than compresses. But his way of measuring time was ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell



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