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The primordial germ is not poetical, but dissertational.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

The dissertational department is equally faulty; for to first impressions everything on earth is chameleon-like.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

From these brief notices it will be seen that terza rima during the Renaissance period was reserved for dissertational, didactic and satiric themes, the Capitoli of the burlesque poets being parodies of grave scholastic lucu-173-brations.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington