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well as the epic represents external events
The dramatic poet, as well as the epic, represents external events, but he represents them as real and present.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

well as Tigers Elephants Rhinoceroses etc existed
After the most complete investigation of the circumstances, Dr. Buckland convinced himself, and proved to the satisfaction of all scientific men, that the cave had been a den of Hyenas 4 at a time when they, as well as Tigers, Elephants, Rhinoceroses, etc., existed in England in as great numbers as they now do in the wildest parts of tropical Asia or Africa.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

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