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... Modern Italian Drama DRAMA : 13. Modern. velop the modern history play with Don Carlos ( 1787 ) , Wallenstein ( 1798-1799 ) , Maria Stuart ( 1800 ) , and Wilhelm Tell ( 1804 ) . Thus neither of the great German dramatists felt much in ...
... Modern Italian Drama DRAMA : 13. Modern. velop the modern history play with Don Carlos ( 1787 ) , Wallenstein ( 1798-1799 ) , Maria Stuart ( 1800 ) , and Wilhelm Tell ( 1804 ) . Thus neither of the great German dramatists felt much in ...
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... modern English word " Dutch " is derived from diets ( duuts ) . At the end of the 15th century the language acquired its modern name -Nederlands . Modern Dutch . The earlier forms of modern Dutch can be traced back to the 17th century ...
... modern English word " Dutch " is derived from diets ( duuts ) . At the end of the 15th century the language acquired its modern name -Nederlands . Modern Dutch . The earlier forms of modern Dutch can be traced back to the 17th century ...
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... modern Western alphabet . In the ancient North Semitic alphabets , as in the modern Hebrew , the letter e was a consonant , having the phonetic value of the aspirant h , and was called he . The ancient meaning of he , if in- Ideed it ...
... modern Western alphabet . In the ancient North Semitic alphabets , as in the modern Hebrew , the letter e was a consonant , having the phonetic value of the aspirant h , and was called he . The ancient meaning of he , if in- Ideed it ...
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