| 单词 | dithyrambic |
| 例句 | When Charles and Margaret finally meet again, and then still again, Mackenzie’s prose grows lyrical, dithyrambic. ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie When I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius reacted to the peaceful outcome of the election in dithyrambic terms, speaking of a ''rebirth'' of the West African nation. Rebirth of the rule of law in Mali? 2013-08-16T20:56:52Z When the sins of Catholics have to be condemned he is quite dithyrambic; but when he has to censure the sins of Protestants he displays a most touching tenderness. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z At the darkest hour he seized the reins without orders and without reference to seniority, and began to reconstruct the force and the spirit of the shattered army by wise administration and dithyrambic proclamations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Of late years he has exhibited an exuberant admiration for Mozart, upon whose "Don Juan" he has written a pamphlet abounding in expressions of the most dithyrambic description. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Wilhelmi's lyric and dithyrambic head was filled with projects for pleasure, and with the eagerness of delight, he demanded a hasty determination concerning the proper use and enjoyment of the day. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z I must content myself with this Chorus of the Mænads, which contains, as in a kernel, the whole dithyrambic poetry of the Italians: Bacchus! we all must follow thee! Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z They have left no verses which can be strictly called dithyrambic, except, perhaps, the nineteenth ode of the second book of Horace, and a chorus in the Œdipus of Seneca. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "Let me celebrate, above all, the little red wine," says Ambrose in a brief dithyrambic note. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z The elegy, in its calm movement, seems to have begun to lose currency when the ecstasy of emotion was more successfully interpreted by the various rhythmic and dithyrambic inventions of the Aeolic lyrists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Finally, the pages of the Autobiography ring with the dithyrambic praise of his "almost infallible counsellor." On Liberty 2011-01-12T03:00:34.363Z I assure you that I am not in the least degree capable of writing a dithyrambic ode, or any other kind of ode. Maria Edgeworth The Romans, being a more sober and severe people than the Greeks, gave less encouragement than they to the celebration of the rites of Bacchus, and have poured forth but few dithyrambic lines. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z As each triumphal device was passed, children dressed as angels, or muses, were made to sing or recite conceited phrases of dithyrambic flattery to the heroine of the hour. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The earliest dithyrambic poetry was probably improvised by priests of Bacchus at solemn feasts, and expressed, in disordered numbers, the excitement and frenzy felt by the worshippers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Iversen said, not particularly grateful for support from such a dithyrambic source as the ship's medical officer. Once a Greech At the close of the 4th century B.C., a dithyrambic measure, irregular and wild, was introduced and enjoyed considerable vogue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" If not perfectly dithyrambic, the numbers of the Atis of Catullus are, however, strongly expressive of distraction and enthusiasm. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It is not everybody who can wax dithyrambic over the ‘dusty’ and the ‘mouldy.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Pindar, in whose hands the ode took such magnificent completeness, is said to have been trained in the elements of dithyrambic poetry by a certain Lasus of Hermione. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" O Bride!” he cried, waxing dithyrambic, “bride of my reason and my senses, have pity, have pity on my love!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) I assure you that I am not in the least capable of writing a dithyrambic ode, or any other kind of ode. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen He swung me with a laugh, to the other side of the room, and waved his arms grotesquely, as he continued his dithyrambic eulogy of the colossal idea. The Belovéd Vagabond Of the dithyrambic poet Cinesias it is said that he profaned holy things in an obscene manner. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Ion, having carried off the prize in a dithyrambic contest, distributed to every Athenian citizen a cup of Chian wine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" On the canvases are dithyrambic burlesques in color, vicious fantasies, despairing caricatures. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath He played lightly with these relations, he laughed over them and wept over them, he wrote impassioned and dithyrambic orations upon them. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations This part of India is far from answering to the "enchantress" idea which the dithyrambic descriptions of writers who have celebrated its marvels have led Europeans to form. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century He became dithyrambic and he spoke in a tone not loud, but full of concentrated fire and feeling. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness In the opinion of antiquity, pure dithyrambic poetry reached its climax in a lost poem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" As a consequence, men have turned their backs on welfare and reality, in order to pursue beauty, glory, poetry, and dithyrambic rhetoric, pleasure, fame, adventure, and phantasms. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals I mean a girl of our civilisation which has established a dithyrambic phraseology for the expression of love. Chance A Tale in Two Parts It is a joyous dithyrambic, which, despite its artful and semi-impossible metre, must have been the swiftly-worded expression of a genuine feeling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 It may be, as were the dithyrambic festivals of Greece, the riotous overflow of enthusiasm, a joyous, sympathetic exuberance with the vital processes of Nature. Human Traits and their Social Significance In modern literature, although the adjective “dithyrambic” is often used to describe an enthusiastic movement in lyric language, and particularly in the ode, pure dithyrambs have been extremely rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It is glorified for popularity, and is a subject of dithyrambic rhetoric. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The day of sentiment was over, and no dithyrambic affirmations or fine-drawn analyses of the Rights of Man would serve their present turn. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American The dithyrambic prose in which it is the fashion to celebrate our conspicuous men has a hollow sound, very like cant. Education and the Higher Life Even Redi, tho’ he chanted Bacchus in the Tuscan valleys, Never drank the wine he vaunted In his dithyrambic sallies. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 There is a reminiscence in him of Klopstock's inflated rhetoric; and a certain dithyrambic ecstasy—a strained, high-keyed aria-style which sometimes breaks into falsetto. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators and are never deceived by dithyrambic oratory. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The dithyrambic style of the Letter manifestly exercised a powerful influence on the prose of Herder and Goethe—prose charged with perfervid feeling, and hitherto unknown in German literature. The Youth of Goethe The dithyrambic exuberances in this relation, the romantic extravagances of sentiment, illustrate both the strength and the weakness of a genius bordering close on disease. The Friendships of Women It was a dithyrambic of the wildest and most passionate enthusiasm, inciting to carnage and fury. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century It is of course true that he has never reached or attempted to reach the gorgeous rhapsodies of De Quincey or the dithyrambic melodies of Ruskin. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Why then should we not join in dithyrambic oratory, and set all our mores to optimism? Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals But modes of death have often been invented to accord with the lives of those who suffered them, just as dithyrambic Anacreon is said to have been choked by a grape stone. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Then when the dithyrambic song returned, it would either continue the narrative or comment on its ethical features. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art It is obviously easier to be dithyrambic than critical in chronicling this event; to which indeed dithyrambs are more appropriate than criticism. Adventures in Criticism The dithyrambic noise of the mighty city, where millions of men were at work, exercised a renewing, transforming influence. Atlantis We say a style is “dithyrambic” when it is unmeasured, too ornate, impassioned, flowery. Ancient Art and Ritual "Why, George, you are getting dithyrambic," said Arthur, still smiling, but with a new vague respect in his heart. The Half-Hearted In this ancient drama and its precursor, the dithyrambic song and dance, is found a union of words and music which scientific investigation proves to be not only entirely natural but inevitable. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art I have tried to stand on the facts of things before I began to feel 'dithyrambically.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Now and then a dithyrambic rapture came over him, especially when there was wine in his blood. Atlantis Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and dithyrambic poetry, and the greater part of the music of the flute and of the lyre, are all, in general, modes of imitation…. On The Art of Reading He wrote to her several times a week, and between letters he took long walks composing dithyrambic epistles that fortunately were never written. The Plastic Age For instance, Aristotle tells how Philoxenus attempted to set dithyrambic verse to the Dorian mode, and, failing, had to return to the Phrygian. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University He hastens to embrace the new-married couple, and singing an epithalamium, the dithyrambic epicure enchanted the company. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess—dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century My author, gathering heat, puts it somewhat dithyrambically: but there you have it, Gentlemen. On The Art of Reading "Because, he's been positively—what do you call it?—dithyrambic about you for the last three months." The Real Adventure As far southwards as Tours the dithyrambic prevailed; Richard was untiring in the hunt for analogues. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Under his touch Correggio loses somewhat of his sensuous audacity, his dithyrambic ecstasy, and approaches the ordinary standard of prettiness and graceful beauty. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series It was received by the most authoritative part of the press with outspoken, even dithyrambic eulogies, in which the severely judicial Athen�um took the lead. Robert Browning One or two bald facts will perhaps give to anyone possessing any faculty of visualisation as clear an idea as they could get from any number of dithyrambic pages. Ulster's Stand For Union Himself a newly-married man, he waxed dithyrambic on the sustained affection and accord of the departed couple. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts For after the politicians I went to the poets, as well the tragic as the dithyrambic and others, expecting that here I should in very fact find myself more ignorant than they. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates The dithyrambic exaltation, the unrestrained but beautiful enthusiasm of the book came like an electric shock. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 His style is in marked contrast to the dithyrambic eloquence of Carlyle, or to Ruskin's pure and radiant coloring. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems The militarist grows dithyrambic in showing how war makes for the blessings of peace. The Art of the Moving Picture Do not our poets sing, Our pressmen praise in dithyrambic prose, The 'lads' who win our worlds and face our foes? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 22, 1890 "Voluntaries," published in the same year in the "Atlantic Monthly," is more dithyrambic in its measure and of a more Pindaric elevation than the plain song of the "Boston Hymn." Ralph Waldo Emerson "We are going to save London," De Haan put it in one of his dithyrambic moments. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Henry Thoreau is an experienced skater, and was figuring dithyrambic dances and Bacchic leaps on the ice,—very remarkable, but very ugly methought. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" It arose from the dithyrambic chorus that was sung at the festivals of Dionysus. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Like fauns, they combine a certain wildness, a dithyrambic ecstasy, a delight in rapid motion as they revel amid clouds and flowers, with the permanent and all-pervading sweetness of the painter's style. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts I want to sing, to dance; I am dithyrambic with delight. Ballads of a Bohemian Pinchas was dithyrambic, sublime, with audacities which only genius can venture on. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People O Bride!’ he cried, waxing dithyrambic, ‘bride of my reason and my senses, have pity, have pity on my love!’ Prince Otto, a Romance Ah," he cried, growing more dithyrambic, "how lightly you ask what it means! The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 The Moniteur was full of dithyrambic eulogies, in prose and verse. The Court of the Empress Josephine Turning to the dithyrambic utterances of the London Press at the time we can hardly wonder at the hallucination. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" He then explained the delight he received from Mozart, and how greatly he enjoyed the dithyrambic movement of Beethoven; but could never find pleasure in the fashionable modern composers. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 Cinesias was not a dancer, but a dithyrambic poet, who declaimed with much gesticulation and movement that one might almost think he was performing this dance. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 No, only the souls of two or three dithyrambic poets. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 I hope you went and enjoyed it and found Orcival exceeding my poor dithyrambic. The Mountebank When some Jewish banker or other was appointed consul-general in the Orient, he welcomed the occurrence in dithyrambic verses, dedicated to the poor fellow in the name of the Jews of Lithuania and White Russia. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) In the grand style of dithyrambic song, indeed, the bard is rapt into an ideal world, and soars far beyond his subjective emotions or desires; but to this Pindaric inspiration Horace made no pretension. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The critics were dithyrambic in their discourses concerning the new "Dona Sol," but the casual reporters were, as always, indiscreet, and disguised the truth under little prevarications, fantastic and suggestive. The Idol of Paris Their dithyrambic character, their high-flown language, strained metaphors, tortuous constructions, and frequent, perhaps studied, obscurity, render it almost impossible to reproduce them in the forms of our poetry. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles He thanks the gods for every mood, Doric or dithyrambic, for each new relation, for each new friend, and even for his sorrows and misfortunes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 The enthusiasm of the readers at sight of the periodical published in the holy language expressed itself in dithyrambic eulogies and a vast number of odes that filled its columns. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) There is no need in our day to be dithyrambic on the glory of Literature. The Principles of Success in Literature For that he sometimes wrote from divine inspiration is evident from his own confession in the Phaedrus, a great part of which is not so much like an orderly discourse as a dithyrambic poem. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato Of the other five kinds, nomic, dithyrambic, and satiric poetry are mentioned only as illustrative of something Aristotle wishes to say about epic or drama. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism Henry Thoreau is an experienced skater, and was figuring dithyrambic dances and Bacchic leaps on the ice—very remarkable, but very ugly, methought. Memories of Hawthorne The old lyrical poetry, never much cultivated in Athens, ceased in a great measure when tragedy arose; or, rather, tragedy was the complete development, the new and perfected consummation, of the dithyrambic ode. Mosaics of Grecian History If Mr. F. W. Myers hears that some ill-trained observers have seen ghosts, he becomes Dantesque and dithyrambic about "the love that rules the world and all the stars." Without Prejudice But it is just this contradiction which is the miraculous fact in the soul of the dithyrambic dramatist, and if his nature can be understood at all, surely it must be here. Thoughts out of Season Part I Such experience has variety, scenery, and a certain vital rhythm; its story might be told in dithyrambic verse. Pragmatism She wrenched herself free from me, and a terrified cry of "Marcus!" checked my dithyrambic appeal. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel It was a dithyrambic eulogy on four or five young painters who, gifted with real ability as colorists, and exaggerating them for effect, now pretended to be revolutionists and renovators of genius. Strong as Death He ought to remember his dithyrambic moods, but not to be subject to them any longer, nor to yearn after them. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Wagner the dithyrambic dramatist!—The reader who knows Nietzsche will not be misled by these expressions. Thoughts out of Season Part I The influential critic began to talk about Liszt, with whom he declared that he had been on intimate terms; he grew fervent over the master's rhapsodies, with their 'clanging rhythm and dithyrambic fury'. The Whirlpool We speak of a certain wild music in words or rhythm as dithyrambic, like the dithyrambus, that is, the wild choral-singing of the worshippers of Dionysus. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays They made the circuit of the property, and Victor Hugo remained politely cold before the dithyrambic praises which Balzac lavished on his garden. Honore de Balzac Like a glowing stream of lava, the words flowed from his lips; in fiery dithyrambic, in impassioned hymns, he poured forth his love and pain. Henry VIII and His Court Now at last the genius of dithyrambic drama doffs its last disguise. Thoughts out of Season Part I This was the dithyrambic exaltation they had ardently waited for. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories He also wrote lyric poetry; Athenaeus mentions a dithyrambic poem of his called the /Centaurs/, and a /Hymn to Love/. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Tragedy, in its more perfect form, was the offspring of the dithyrambic odes with which that worship was celebrated. A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest SOCRATES: And what do you say of the choral art and of dithyrambic poetry?—are not they of the same nature? Gorgias After the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. Apology I mean a girl of our civilization which has established a dithyrambic phraseology for the expression of love. Chance A Tale in Two Parts These the wild, bewildering fancies, That with dithyrambic dances As with magic circles bound me? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The improvements in the dithyramb were introduced by Arion at Corinth; and it was chiefly among the Dorian states of the Peloponnesus that these choral dithyrambic songs prevailed. A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest And of harp-playing and dithyrambic poetry in general, what would you say? Gorgias As the news took possession of her mind Ellie became dithyrambic. The Glimpses of the Moon He becomes almost dithyrambic in extolling the deeds of his kinsmen in Ireland. The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales He was upwards of 80 when his long poetical career at Athens was closed with the victory which he gained with the dithyrambic chorus in B.C. A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest The dithyrambic odes formed a kind of lyrical tragedy, and were sung by a chorus of fifty men, dancing round the altar of Dionysus. 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