| 单词 | epigram |
| 例句 | Then, with a thrill of recognition, I watched the curves of Alexandria’s two harbors slide into view, their outlines looping like an Arabic epigram inked in incandescent gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I was a bit uncomfortable—after the story I’d just heard—with the Callimachean epigrams having to do with flushed cheeks, and wine, and the kisses of fair-limbed youths by torchlight. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He laughed and quoted a little Greek epigram about honesty being a dangerous virtue, and, to my surprise, opened the door and ushered me in. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I vacuumed books for epigrams, scraps of information, ideas, themes—anything to fill the hollow within me and make me feel educated. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This isn't just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The penultimate paragraph concludes with one of the most notorious epigrams of American law: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z In the 21st century, we prefer to get our epigrams from the Internet. | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z Wills also cites this epigram by Catullus, on the subject of an invitation from Julius Caesar: “Join your party?/I might, mighty Czar,/Could I remember/quite who you are.” | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z Both that Wilde epigram and Rose’s film fandom are hints, clues in a story that eventually dovetails with Mr. Haynes’s interest in images and identity. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The epigram to The Waste Land, which concerns the Cumaean Sibyl, rings strangely among these standing irons. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z And the actors here all land their epigrams — some of which are eminently quotable — with clarity. Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z His emails sign off with the 19th century socialist epigram: “The plough is a better backbone than the factory.” Orcas Island’s farmer-chef 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s the one story in which the fullness of mental life, of sedimented emotion and vivid memory, is evoked in epigrams and gestures. The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z In his Preface to the Reader from P Rossiter's 1601 Book of Ayres, he declared "What epigrams are in poetry, the same are airs in music, then in their chief perfection when they were short." Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z And all those knowingly self-contradictory epigrams, simultaneously flippant and deathly serious, almost like Zen koans: coming at eternal truth by a sort of profound, solemn mischievousness. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z For students drowning in recondite texts about feminism, media and Marxism, Kruger’s work cut through the theoretical verbiage with razor-sharp epigrams. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “We are as gods and might as well get good at it” was the famous epigram of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z His chief weakness, perhaps, is an incorrigible fondness for epigrams and authorial aperçus. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z But whether in black tie or silk pajamas, Mr. Rickman’s Elyot knew that his bespoke clothes — like his impeccably tailored epigrams — could slide away at any minute to reveal a stark-naked lust. In Alan Rickman the Stage Actor, an Erotic Blend of Desire and Conscience 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Moehringer uses Sutton’s fondness for libraries to grinding effect, as an excuse to turn each sentence that comes out of his mouth into a barroom epigram. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z Nor do many of the epigrams that Mr. McRae spits out as if they were pits from bitter cherries. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z Elements of his signature style already figure in this piece of juvenilia, including such epigrams as “Marriage nowadays is nothing but a temporary refuge for those who are uncomfortable at home.” ‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z He was interested in epigrams, jewels, flowers, titles, other men's lineage, menus and table plans, but never in philanthropy. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z She routinely inspires a thousand or more people to retweet depressive epigrams like “i liked you better when you were imaginary.” The Eerie, Mundane Thrill of Being Watched on the Internet 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z She begins with an epigram from northern Nigeria: ‘When the music changes, so does the dance.’ Books: Loving libraries, now more than ever 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Ensconced in a stable government job, known as a tiefanwan—an iron rice bowl—she honed a voice that spoke in mordant epigrams. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z It also features some jewels of epigrams, the best of which come from the spirited Mrs. Sullen on conjugal misery. London Theater Journal: Getting Giddy 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z A few works by Kruger misfire, but so do many epigrams. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z This being Wilde, the expression of those conflicts can seem purely decorative and inconsequential at first, a heap of jeweled epigrams and paradoxes. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Published in what was East Germany, War Primer used second world war photographs, mostly from Life magazine, and accompanied each one with a short rhyming epigram, by Brecht, as comment and counterpoint. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z Whereas Mr. Chappelle escapes tricky territory through sweeping history lessons or literary flourishes, Mr. Rock builds forceful arguments that culminate in precise and memorable epigrams. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z There are few pleasures so guilty as witnessing Ms. Stanger compress her theories of dating into pungent epigrams. The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z That the film ultimately does uphold Harry’s dickish epigram doesn’t make the conclusion feel less earned. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z Mr. Marías wrote in a looping, discursive style that critics often compared to that of Henry James or Laurence Sterne, whose epigram “I progress as I digress” Mr. Marías took as a personal motto. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z And it indeed possesses the stylish self-sufficiency of a crisply turned epigram; like its resident muscle boy, “The Sandbox” doesn’t have an ounce of superfluous fat. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Sinclair's family won the dispute, however: her name has now been added to Milligan's on the headstone, alongside the altogether less comical epigram, "may they rest together in perpetual light." Spike Milligan's not so final punchline – and Have I Got News For You goes Stateside 2012-11-13T17:01:19Z To that end, Mr. Stoltzman said, he composed wry epigrams and taped them to the walls of his studio, which gradually expanded to fill much of his apartment on West 67th Street in Manhattan. Kalmen Opperman, Master Clarinetist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-06-22T23:28:00Z His guitar solos might erupt as frenzies of wah-wah, searing melodies or terse, viciously slicing epigrams. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to Wordsworth and nursery rhymes. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or amusingly, never manage to get any closer to them. What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z In common with many short forms, the epigram looks easier to do than it is. Poster poems: Epigrams 2010-10-07T07:34:00Z In adapting it to the stage, Mr. Hampton opened up the events described into a luxurious indoor battlefield, in which combatants exchange brittle epigrams and coded innuendos. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Both toss in an epigram about the truth right at the top: “Author” quotes Federico Fellini, while “J.T. LeRoy” cites Oscar Wilde. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The Scena Theatre production in the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s tiny Lab II is a pocket staging of the Wilde play, a script that crackles with epigrams and simmers with melodrama. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Though her bit about Elizabeth Taylor as a rabbi is great, too often what the script calls a “cute story” — plumped with Yiddish and capped with an epigram — turns out sadly to be just that. Review: Abzug and Fierstein, on the Same Ticket in ‘Bella Bella’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Modern gossip writers trying to connect themselves to a literary tradition might want to claim the ancient Greek epigram. | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z Manguel writes to her once more, later that year, praising The Blue Flower, and asking to use a line of it as an epigram for his next book. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Reading it one discovers a whole tradition of love poetry, epigram and elegy, movingly brought into English and then beautifully printed and bound by Washington’s own Mage Publishers. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Time,” Barnes admits, “is equally the enemy of the butterfly, the dandy and the epigram.” Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The cast handles the brittle epigrams with the assurance of veteran fencers while conveying the anxious restlessness that plagued London’s bright young things in the post-World War I era. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z It is a perfect epigram for those sullen beauties with their obtuse and obstructive ways, hired to do front of house in upscale commercial galleries. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z A savvy celebration of a mythic urban sophistication, it is basically the sum of its epigrams and perfectly groomed star turns. Review: ‘All About Eve’ Gets the Vampire Treatment from Ivo van Hove 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z As usual, Mr. Belber provides snappy dialogue that recalls an era of Hollywood movies when even the dimmest characters could come up with an epigram or two. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Fornés’s surrealistic style, like Beckett’s or Ionesco’s, favors quips and epigrams. Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The Duke of Wellington never uttered the epigram attributed to him: “Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.” A near-run thing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z And Godard, the master of the gnomic epigram and perceptive paradox, once said: "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z “Chaos is order yet undeciphered,” reads the opening epigram, which must mean: undeciphered even after the movie ends. REVIEW: In Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal Sees Double 2014-03-13T17:07:23Z She begins with an epigram from northern Nigeria: “When the music changes, so does the dance.” Zadie Smith's 'Swing Time' is a tour-de-force 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Those ambitions are evident, too, in an epigram from Virgil, its block letters formed from pitted metal salvaged from the ruins: “No Day Shall Erase You From the Memory of Time.” Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Heavily seasoned with epigrams worthy of Oscar Wilde, this entertaining documentary portrays Vidal as a pessimistic political prophet with streaks of paranoia and misanthropy, but a truth teller nonetheless. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z It was already clear that Mr. Stoppard was a dramatist of a singular intellectual stripe, with his academic antics and cascading epigrams, suggesting a genius prankster run amok in an Oxbridge library. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z If there’s a whiff of conservatism in that last epigram, it’s not surprising. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The book — each section of which opens with an epigram from Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations” — eventually bogs down in philological digression. Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Often, if a topic is trending, he turns it into an epigram. The Life of an Instagram Poet 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z And Norman Mailer, who provides an epigram at the beginning of the book, says people find it very difficult to believe it could have happened the way it happened because it suggests an absurd universe. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z Kruger’s epigrams differ from other forms of reductionism, including the journalistic sound bite and the political slogan. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The anger she had repressed in her youth came out forcefully but smoothly, in anecdotes and epigrams, and was carefully modulated into irony or nostalgia. A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92 2010-05-10T19:10:00Z Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The epigram is one of the briefest of poetic forms, but, as the derivation of the name might suggest, it is also one of the most enduring. Poster poems: Epigrams 2010-10-07T07:34:00Z He insisted that we come to him, that we navigate the densities of his thought, decipher his epigrams and learn a new language: his. Godard Taught Me How to Watch Cinema, Even as He Kept Reinventing It 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “At 7 years old, my favorite form of expression was the epigram,” he wrote in “Lost Property.” Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73 2010-06-26T01:00:00Z Detail from anonymous portrait of Robert Sidney This week's poem comes from a collection of sonnets, songs, pastorals, elegies and epigrams by the newly-rediscovered Elizabethan poet, Robert Sidney. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z I started to look around for epigrams by women. She started a company focusing on quotes from women. What does she have to say? 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z A master of epigrams as well as of movies, Mr. Godard once observed, “A film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order.” Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z And so, this National Poetry Day, I invite you to share your own brief and witty epigrams. Poster poems: Epigrams 2010-10-07T07:34:00Z This production brings to mind another baleful epigram, courtesy of Jean-Paul Sartre: “Hell is just other people.” Theater Review | 'The Boys in the Band': Broken Hearts, Bleeding Psyches 2010-02-23T23:10:00Z The torrent of epigrams and epithets is thoroughly entertaining, but also a little wearing. Imperial Fizz 2010-08-13T14:46:00Z Oscar Wilde is the model of the wit as artist: his epigrams are his genius, his public pose a form of literature. Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job 2012-05-23T14:25:04Z Along with Paul Rudnick, Mr. Beane is American theater’s best living exponent of the exploding epigram, and some of the jokes here are eminently quotable. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z Mr. Hollander later dismissed his earlier poetry as “verse essay” or “epigram literature.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z Not being tethered to an office gave Holmes room to write, and in 2014 he started composing epigrams and short, satirical poems tailor-made for social media. The Life of an Instagram Poet 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Bedford’s delivery of Wilde’s epigrams as if they were entirely natural expressions of character is not easily matched. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z But they appear to be evaporating from a film world in which the memorable one-liner — a brilliant epigram, a quirky mantra, a moment in a bottle — is in danger of becoming a lost art. Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello 2010-10-19T22:25:00Z A good epigram demands that the poet masters two of the most difficult things to achieve in verse, brevity and wit. Poster poems: Epigrams 2010-10-07T07:34:00Z The Essay is rich in epigrams, still widely quoted. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z This whip-smart take on workplace racism and Black self-esteem signals its ambitions in an epigram attributed to Due: “Black history is black horror.” 6 books to get you started with Black horror, classic and new 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Among Burke's epigrams are such copybook maxims as "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z In this one, he basically stands around indulging a series of cosmic snit fits, laying waste to the digitally confected scenery and uttering tedious epigrams about time, recurrence and the apocalypse. Review: The Marvel machine hits a new low with 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Among the manuscripts, personal notes and correspondence is the unfinished draft of the third book in the Parable series, “Parable of the Trickster,” which begins with an epigram that has been attributed to Butler herself. The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Godard, she adds, “insisted that we come to him, that we navigate the densities of his thought, decipher his epigrams and learn a new language: his. If we couldn’t or wouldn’t, too bad — for us.” Your Thursday Briefing: Pakistan, Submerged 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z That reminds me of a line from “Medea” that Alison Gaylin used as an epigram for her thriller “The Collective”: “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.” America's top mystery book critics break down the year in crime 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Because of her ingenious facility with an epigram, Ms. Lebowitz is often compared to Dorothy Parker, but she could not live more differently, far from the sewage of booze and romantic chaos. Everybody Loves Fran. But Why? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Like all the best epigrams, it is deeply wise, even if it overgeneralises. Coronavirus good news: we have many blessings to count 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z My gratitude journal has similar epigrams at the top of each page: “Every day may not be good but there is something good in every day.” Glass half-full: how I learned to be an optimist in a week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z That epigram would be just fine, if stated once. Reconsidering the Advice in 3 Popular Personal Finance Books 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The thing begins with an epigram: “We dedicate this to the energy of we — greater than any one of us, but inside all of us.” WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “Souvenirs always remind you of buying them,” is one of my most prized Berman epigrams. Remembering David Berman: 'We’d never been promised there would be a tomorrow' 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z This kind of aphorism fills the space left not only by the epigram but by the epistles once exchanged by friends with time to be funny. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “Every day, try to be hungry and out of breath” is his neatly epigenetic epigram. Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Orwell borrowed Mackinder’s framing for one of the most famous epigrams from “1984”: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” A look at the books which have inspired literary classics 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Ellis’s powerful epigram captures why we now have so much war: “It is not declared, few have to fight, and no one has to pay.” Review | Arguing with the founders about where we’ve gone wrong 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Like the hedgehog in the ancient epigram, President Trump in politics knows only one big thing, but he knows it very well — how to polarize. Trump thrives on polarization, but this time it may hurt him - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It may be that all the aphoristic kinds—from the blunt saying to the polished epigram—run together in critical prose, where they are weapons in the struggle rather than heads mounted on the wall. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Artist Roni Horn used a variety of colored marker pens and a host of writing styles to sprinkle common aphorisms and epigrams in clusters from floor to ceiling. A year after Hurricane Harvey delayed its debut, a home for modern drawings opens in Houston - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z George Orwell gave this piece of advice its epigram: “Good prose is like a windowpane.” How to write the perfect sentence 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Which is no surprise from a tennis film unusual enough to use a Jean-Luc Godard proclamation that "cinema lies, sports doesn't" as an opening epigram. Review: 'John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection' is as unusual a sports documentary as you're likely to see 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s just one heart-rending epigram in a song full of them, capturing the way defiance masks hope, and how easily love and desire can delude us into forgiveness. Still saving us from tears: the inside story of Wham!'s Last Christmas 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s best epigrams are usually funnier when taken away from the designated speakers in his plays. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z As one epigram puts it: “The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” What a debt crisis in the provinces says about governing China 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z That’s what makes the appropriation facile but also risky, according to advertising pros, who suggested the epigram can just as easily offend as entice. Never mind healthcare. President Trump has made slogans great again 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Over the years, Mattis became known for his supply of rousing epigrams—a kind of fighting man’s Bartlett’s, rich with high-minded incitements to violence. James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z And he embellished all this with an epigram: "There's not a program for every problem." The New Era of Big Government 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I asked readers for other oft-quoted epigrams that make no sense. Super Bowl Preview, and the Silly Complaints About Celebrations 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The condition of the global economy, and even the American economy, brings to mind the epigram: An optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears he may be right. The Stagnant Recovery 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Those steely epigrams summing up all subjects resemble the bars of a cage through which he peers defensively. Gore Vidal’s Delusions of Candor 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z It seems fitting to conclude this essay with an epigram that, paired with the one we started with, gives a nice example: Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But he may be more widely known for inspiring the cartoon character Yogi Bear and for his unwittingly witty epigrams, known as Yogi-isms, like “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Your Wednesday Briefing 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The site, whose signage bares more than a passing resemblance to Disneyland, is full of the artist’s subversive statements and epigrams on Western culture, the media, capitalism and extreme disparities of wealth. Street artist Banksy's 'Dismaland' is 'escape from mindless escapism' 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The site, whose signage bares more than a passing resemblance to Disneyland, is full of the artist's subversive statements and epigrams on Western culture, the media, capitalism and extreme disparities of wealth. Street artist Banksy's 'Dismaland' is 'escape from mindless escapism' 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z His terse style of speaking sometimes produces epigrams: ‘‘It’s the misinformation that’s important.’’ The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z A tall woman who often wore sweats and red sneakers, Mrs. Hawkins presided over daily rap sessions at the center, where she delivered her message in pithy epigrams. Hannah Hawkins, who started child-care program in gritty D.C. neighborhood, dies at 75 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z They speak just as lucidly as epigrams, and the actual content of Julius Streicher’s hideous cartoons of Jews was clear: they were not mocking Judaism; they were threatening the lives of Jewish people. PEN Has Every Right to Honor Charlie Hebdo 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A hallmark of his work was the powerful and elegant epigram on the struggle for human dignity, a vision he laid out as a battle between those who conquer and those who resist. Eduardo Galeano, influential Uruguayan author, dies at 74 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z That and the significant health benefits of tequila, barbed epigrams and witty asides. An inadvertent masterwork turns 31 (or 29) 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Henry Ford II became so closely associated with the epigram “Never complain, never explain,” that it became the title of one — yes — unauthorized biography of the auto executive. Jeff Bezos's Wife, A Writer, Offers Epic Take On Amazon 2013-11-05T17:39:00Z It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. Remembering David Foster Wallace: 5 quotes on life and other things 2013-09-12T20:40:00Z Actually, his initial reply was a techie epigram. Bits Blog: IBM Looks Ahead to a Sensor Revolution and Cognitive Computers 2012-12-17T12:16:39Z If that sentence proved an apt motto for what followed, it would also work pretty well as epigram for the entire city. Team GB falters but London shines bright on opening day 2012-07-28T23:42:35Z I’m reminded of that old epigram from the 1960s that said “My mind is made up; don’t confuse me with the facts.” The Root of Mitt Romney’s Comfort With Lying 2012-06-13T10:00:12Z He might have lived to repeat the epigram if he had married the princess. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Now, dropt for politics and news, Neglected lay the drooping MUSE, Unmindful whence his fortune came, He stifled the poetic flame; Nor tale nor sonnet, for my lady, Lampoon, nor epigram was ready. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z Henry composed eight books of Latin epigrams; two books survive in the Lambeth MS., Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Moreover, it would not have particularly interested you, for after all, "good society which does not offer materials for the smallest epigram," is equally vapid in a letter. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z In the course of ten minutes he had made a more or less witty epigram on Benvenuto Cellini, Queen Victoria, sport, God, Stephen Phillips, and Moorish architecture. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Nay," answered the simple gentlewoman, "but one well versed in pageants and tournaments and suchlike devices, as well as in writing of verses and epigrams very fine and witty. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z His government was a despotism not tempered by epigrams, and it was controlled by a despot who, though not devoid of a sense of humor, had all a Corsican's mortal hatred of ridicule. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z He wrote local, historical and military poems, idylls, epigrams and occasional pieces, collected under the title of Sylvae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z —Will A. B. R. allow me to correct one or two to typographical errors in the Italian version of his clever epigram? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-03T02:00:26.740Z Both were splendid in conversation, brilliant in epigram; both loved music and were intensely susceptible to its influence. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The people were much scandalised at this elevation, and made epigrams about it. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Soon it became a custom to stick to it any epigram or satirical verse the author of which desired to be unknown. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z But this, as Mr. Payne Collier very justly feels, completely spoils the whole complexion of the epigram, and perverts a fine allusion into a raw personality. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-25T02:00:04.460Z A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; Ð particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z I shall not apply to them John Bright's epigram about families which came over with William the Conqueror and never did anything else; for the Kingsleys seem to have been always an active race. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z As we are hastily reading books and papers we continually come across maxims, epigrams, and short, pithy sayings that attract us. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z There was a volume of six hundred and thirty-seven pages of epigrams and satires, published in 1544, claiming to be pasquinades, many of which doubtless were such. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z "Poor Mary!" said he, "she hears all of an epigram but the point." Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Young Walshingham, it appeared, said something or other that was an "epigram," and they all applauded him. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z The speech overflowed with illustration, ingenious analogy, felicitous quotation, brilliant epigram, and political paradoxes that were made to sound wondrously like maxims of wisdom. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z While here, he distinguished himself by his skill in Latin poetry, and more particularly epigrams. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z Again, comparing the “epigrams” with the legends and anecdotes told in the Lives of Homer, we can hardly doubt that they were the chief source from which these Lives were derived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z When too late you may sport with the shade—not in the shade—of Amaryllis, and perhaps elbow epigrams as a lean consolation. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z When the epigram happened, he first of all smiled, to pretend he understood, and instantly suppressed the smile to show he did not listen. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z He threw off concise and luminous maxims of government which would have been precious guides if human politics could only be ruled by epigram. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z This talent, however, did great harm, for he was struck out of the will of a rich uncle for his satirical epigrams on the church of Rome. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z This source was in all probability an epigram quoted in two of the short lives of Homer, and there said to have been inscribed on the statue of Peisistratus at Athens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z In every-day life he was a charming, companionable, and very human chap, and, as Frederick James Gregg says, dropped more witty epigrams in an hour than Whistler did annually. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z His thinness is commemorated by the poor but well-known epigram attributed to Young, and identifying him at once with “Satan, Death, and Sin.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z It was not a mere epigram which Mr. Mill uttered when he described the Tories as the stupid party. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z His epigrams p. 49have been several times reprinted, both in England, and on the Continent; they are justly admired for their wit and purity of language. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z The epigram is almost certainly a mere literary exercise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z To lend poignancy to this mild epigram Mr. Hueffer misquotes it, substituting the name of De Maupassant for Turgenev's. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He employed every species of composition—poetry, prose, tragedy, comedy, history, dialogue, epistle, essay or epigram—as it suited his purpose, and he excelled in all. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Lucian had it in his mind when he wrote a famous passage in his poem, and it suggested an epigram by Antiphilos. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The poet had scribbled in it memoranda of all sorts: notes for essays, stray epigrams, rough drafts of poems. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z He discards the tricks of the school, adoxography, epigram and, as a rule, paradox. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Mr Disraeli, always pre-eminently happy on these occasions, delighted host, hostess, and guests by a coruscation of glittering antitheses, and flashing epigrams in affectionate honour of the bride and bridegroom. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Everyone will recall the sanguinary epigram of Lord Byron upon the incident which I have narrated.—Farrar. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Latin epigram, supposed to be her Majesty's composition. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-20T03:00:18.340Z She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z In France before the Revolution, men spoke of the government as "despotism tempered by epigrams," and the happy phrase is as true of Imperial Rome. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The conversation must be so contrived as to coruscate with epigram, and to fascinate with anecdotes all warranted to be new, lest the diner of the evening should have the slightest touch of boredom. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z When we quote the epigrams of Wilde, it is as if we were exhibiting in a glass case, a collection of beautiful butterflies, whose wings have lost the brilliancy of their once gaudy colours. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z The epigrams by Davies, although not devoid of wit, were coarse enough to deserve their fate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z And with this epigram his consciousness went so rapidly he might really be said to "fall asleep." The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z "Despotism tempered by epigrams" Life was terrible in its fears and in its pleasures. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Never was there a greater bit of luck for the Lorge hermits than the epigram that was too pungent, and its consequences. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z True, he spoils the epigram by adding, “I make one exception, St. Francis of Assisi.” The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z —In May last was placed on Pasquin's statue in Rome the following triglot epigram, of which the original Latin was borrowed from "NOTES AND QUERIES." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-15T03:00:31.720Z About the time his stock of journalistic epigrams ran out, the reports from the circulation manager were so favorable, that he decided he could give his attention to other things. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Of course, it's nothing wonderful as a piece of wit, but I might get an epigram worth keeping, say three times a week, if I had a secretary at my elbow. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z A too pungent epigram followed by a fatal duel, makes it convenient to seek eclipse. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z He riddled the enemy with epigram till he fell to the earth, then he jumped on to his prostrate form and chopped it to pieces with logic. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z After all, you can hardly run a five-Act comedy on stage directions and a single epigram, though I admit that the attempt has been made. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z No one stuck to a subject after their epigrams had run out. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Amid an enormous mass of occasional verses, anagrams, epigrams, impromptus and the like, his satires and serious poems were almost buried. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z These epigrams point to a comparatively recent movement, which might be described as the Recognition of Latin America. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z This evening he surpassed himself in epigram and logic; no doubt he desired to overcome the Nun's obstinate scepticism as to his career, no less than to maintain his popularity in Meriton. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z For sale, original epigram, mint condition, wide application, never been used. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z A circle of cultivated Spaniards is one of the most charming groups on earth, but Spaniards altogether innocent of formal education may be walking anthologies of old ballads, spicy quatrains, riddles, proverbs, fables, epigrams. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z He did not like her schoolgirlish attempt at epigram, and he showed his disapproval. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z This is followed by the Latin epigram, or address to the reader, by Geo. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The closeness of the connexion is illustrated by Juvenal’s epigram that a Cynic differed from a Stoic only by his cloak. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Says an epigram of the period: “At Christ Church, ‘Marriage’ done before the King, Least that some mates should want an offering, The King himself did offer—what, I pray? Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z The argument halted; the chosen words failed him; he stumbled from unconnected epigram to inappropriate metaphor; he clung to half-remembered phrases, and with a sinking heart repeated them, and repeated them--and repeated them. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Her laughter was to him as some biting epigram which epitomised the way in which she had spent the years of his absence. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z If man could change the universe By force of epigrams in verse, He'd smash some idols, I allow, But who would alter Mrs. Howe? Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The poems are divided into three books, two of which contain forty-five epigrams, while the third contains forty-four. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Among the proposals made to raise further revenue was a tax on coffins, which gave rise to some keen epigrams. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z Paradox allured him into difficulties, cheap epigrams at times blazed before him, and would not be quiet until he had uttered them. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Delicate irony and pointed epigram take the place of broad humour. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Schoolmaster's friends have written him complimentary epigrams, which are prefixed to his poem. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z This surely breaks the record in the matter of speed in producing epigrams. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z In defending his proposals Mr Disraeli gave full scope to his most characteristic gifts; he pelted his opponents right and left with sarcasms, taunts and epigrams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Besides his chronicles, he wrote 'La R�collection des Merveilleuses,' and several epigrams. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z The Books from i. to xx. were written in hexameters; Book xxii., apparently, in elegiacs, a metre which had hitherto been employed only in short epigrams. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But he had not that intuitive power which leads a man like a bee in a quick straight line to the essential thing, or to put vast accumulations of truth into epigrams. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z The historian would have found no deed to chronicle, although he could hardly have omitted the brilliant epigram, attributed to the Dumpy Philosopher, "Captain put us on the map, and now we'm blotted out." A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z No doubt also many of the11 Quatrains in the Teheran, as in the Calcutta, Copies, are spurious; such Rubaiyat being the common form of epigram in Persia. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z His head was full of things he had read, of plots, of great characters, even of epigrams and biting iconoclasms. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z The first attempts to introduce the erotic poetry of Alexandria, in the form of epigrams and short lyrical poems, also belong to this period. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We have already said that he was not a maker of epigrams: the sweep of his mind was too broad and slow. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Harington’s Rabelaisian pamphlets show that he was almost equally endowed with wit and indelicacy, and his epigrams are sometimes smart and always easy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z But when we discount Chesterfield's studied epigrams, poised with the malignant nicety of one who hated his subject, there is not much left for discredit. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z He would listen, his eyes questing eagerly for epigrams, for illuminating sentences he might contribute. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Many of the epigrams refer to the persons who are the subject of the short lyric and iambic pieces. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This is the original of a well-known epigram by Porson, who remarked that all Germans are ignorant of Greek metres, All, save only Hermann;— And Hermann’s a German. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z This reproach is the significance of Schiller's epigram, entitled “Scruples of Conscience.” The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The utmost license he allowed himself was to seize on the ridiculous side of some absent friend as the subject for an epigram, but never, or almost never, at the cost of his credit. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z I afterwards learnt that he had given up strong liqueurs altogether, and I went to see him again, but he received me with epigrams. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z About one half of the shorter poems, and more than half of the epigrams, are to be classed among his personal lampoons or light satiric pieces. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If such a statement is spread out a little, it becomes an amusing hoax or an epigram. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z The Latin and Greek anthologies contain about a dozen epigrams under his name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z He also wrote a little, with plenty of impudence and epigram, if nothing else. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z The enemies of Christianity, since the time of Voltaire, have not failed, at the name of Bonzis, to throw out many malicious epigrams against religion. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z The sins which he specifies as alienating the Gods from men are those most rife in his own time, with which he has dealt in a more realistic fashion in his satiric epigrams. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Bayle, in his article of Tiraqueau, a French advocate of the sixteenth century, quotes an epigram, which would make him the father of forty-five children, and, it is added, by one wife. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-21T03:00:39.257Z The latter, instead of becoming lord treasurer, was, according to the epigram of Halifax which has become proverbial, “kicked upstairs,” to the office of lord president of the council. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z As he once expressed it, his career was best epitomized in Ade's graphic epigram, "Life is a series of relapses and recoveries." The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The fire-logs alone conversed aloud in mysterious whispers, with crackling epigrams. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The saying is full of the mellow wisdom of either writer, and stamped with the peculiar veracity of the Silver Age of Roman or British epigram. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Yet he deserved the stinging epigram which Goldoni uttered on his character: "A smile upon his lips and venom in his heart." The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Figuratively speaking but yesterday Oscar Wilde was the man of the hour, and to him, and him alone, we looked for our wit, our epigrams, and our learned and interesting plays. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The moral of Mr. Disraeli's epigram is, 'Be adventurous.' Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z They were to be presented at court if the Queen forgave the Countess her latest epigram in time. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Epigram shows us truth in the embrace of a lie, and tales which are dramatized epigrams are subject to a like constraint. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The P�re la Chauss�e, to adopt an epigram of Piron's, preached every evening from his pulpit in a score of theatres through Europe. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z When we quote the epigrams of Wilde, it is as if we were exhibiting in a glass case a collection of beautiful butterflies, whose wings have lost the brilliancy of their once gaudy colours. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z He knocked about and enjoyed himself, and sang romantic songs, and wrote epigrams, and led a fast life generally, very often abroad, and was full of gifts and intellectual capacity. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z Forbes was not the type from whom one expects epigrams and generalizations. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z When strongly moved he sometimes utters an epigram that rings like steel leaving the scabbard. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z He did not aim at epigram, and his humour was as spontaneous as it was delightful. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z It was but a phase; if everyone were to talk in epigrams it would be distinguished to talk sense. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z In secular poetry, the writing of epigrams especially was cultivated with assiduity and often with ability. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z A ploughboy's epigram would not have seemed more out of place. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Nevertheless his speech was a superb effort of oratory; for more than two hours he kept his audience spellbound by a flood of epigram, of sustained reasoning, of eloquent appeal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z How you concocted those epigrams, � la preface of B., I don't see. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The man of society, the witty talker, the maker of epigrams—Wilde at his apogee just before his fall—this is the picture on which the Latin psychologists have liked to dwell. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The dominant form for all subjective poetry was the epigram, which was employed in all its variations from playful trifles to long elegiac and narrative poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z What a superb conjugal truth you condense in one demure little epigram!... An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z So we are, but not—to quote the old epigram—but not with the same skulls. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z In general I don't see how an epigram, being a pure bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The satire is keen and there are some clever epigrams. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z In the 9th century Theodorus of Studium had lighted upon the happy idea of immortalizing The epigram. monastic life in a series of epigrams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z One of the most interesting points about the little book to us nowadays is that it is accompanied by some Latin hexameters and pentameters and an epigram in the same language by More. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z He was ever on the watch for some analogy or antithesis; ever producing some new alliteration or epigram expressive of such contrasts as that between his age and his activity. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z But Oxford seems a better climate for epigram than is the rest of the world. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z His fancy disports itself in an atmosphere of epigrams like a young colt in a meadow. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z It was not in accordance with her nature to make jokes and epigrams about any one. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z I've often been driven to appease the pangs of raging hunger with a careless epigram, and by the laborious composition of a limerick I have sought to deceive a most unholy thirst. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Having entered, the hostess, whose tucked-up dress and general appearance, Martial, in his epigrams, so cunningly describes, brought him a vase or flagon of wine. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The solemn "Times" never printed my letter and thus the world lost an admirable epigram. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The process was to turn a proverb upside down, and there was the epigram. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Nietzsche is worse than shocking; he is simply awful: his epigrams are written with phosphorus or brimstone. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Let the sprightly epigram never lighten the long periods of your speech nor the Attic salt flavour the roast beef of your conversation. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z I append here a collection of short extracts from Toombs’s speeches in the lower house, which illustrate his power to tickle the ear by striking presentation, epigram, and novel expression: Debate always Harmless. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z For the most part her poems cost her as little effort or reflection, as the epigram or touching sentiment that summoned laughter or tears to the group about her in the drawing-room. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z It is the same with the epigrams in "Dorian Gray," most of which were subsequently transferred, bodily, to his plays. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Equally varied is the range of style, the incisive epigram and the passage of pure poetry jostling each other on the same page. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z It'll be most affecting, because in moments of emotion I always burst into epigram. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z It was one of Toombs’s epigrams that the southern confederacy died of too much West Point. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z His little performances, whether songs or epigrams, are sometimes spritely, and sometimes insipid'—and of course despicable. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z The fable, epigram and satire occasionally relieved the flood of lyric verse. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Visscher looked with a philosophic eye on the follies of the day, and his keenest epigrams were pointed with a honied humor that deprived them of their sharpest sting. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z I found myself furbishing up all my epigrams when I spoke to her. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z These had accumulated under each head—especially reports of his epigrams and winged phrases—far more considerably than was my expectation at first. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The pirates were amused by the sallies of their prisoner, who conveyed to them all the bluntness of truth in all the sharpness of epigram. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z She might almost have said, in paraphrase of a great captain's epigram, "I have not yet begun to live!" The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Visscher was celebrated for his epigrams, and was called "the Dutch Martial." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Who for an epigram would try, nor fail, Puts Attic salt upon his verse's tail. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Then from poetry he would turn to romances, fables, stories, epigrams, madrigals, logographs, acrostics, charades, enigmas, and impromptus; and he even wrote a comic opera. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z That evening he was in very great force, and his anecdotes and epigrams were unusually brilliant. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z La Harpe contented himself by making epigrams about her in society; but Fr�ron went further, and dared to attack her in print. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z It has been said, as a kind of jocular epigram, that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z A few extant Greek and Latin epigrams also bear the name Germanicus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Intellectually, it has run to epigram and polished cleverness, and morally to a sort of conscious and ambitious scepticism, with which it only half commingles. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z He carved sonnets out of solid wood and compiled epigrams for Town Topics as a pastime. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z The poet might have been pardoned had he sought consolation for his sufferings in some biting epigram at the expense of the man who had wronged him so cruelly. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Simonides brought the epigram to all the perfection of which it was capable. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z —Has the following coincidence been noticed between an epigram of M. de Coulanges and some verses by Mat. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z His curate wrote the following epigram: I never see my rector's eyes; He hides their light divine: For, when he prays, he shuts his own, And, when he preaches, mine. Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How 2011-09-09T02:01:03.123Z In the course of the dinner the hostess gave the poet a novel, and asked him to translate an epigram on the fly-leaf which was written in Greek. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z "If you think that, monsieur, do lend me the epigram against Messieurs de Guise; I know you have it," said Mademoiselle Davila to Robertet. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z They were romantic, imaginative, poetical, speculative, and would bestow on a well-turned epigram what would have sufficed to pay a regiment of soldiers. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z "I'm afraid he's cut with a rather crooked scissors," said Courtlandt, who indulged in a sly epigram oftener than he got either credit or discredit for doing. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Garrick was often happy in his epigrams and occasional verse, including his numerous prologues and epilogues. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z It was a new figure on which to drape the ideas, witticisms and epigrams he had stored up in a note-book; and they were amazingly clever. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Arthur ought to have blushed at this high praise, but instead, he stolidly explained his epigram, and observed further that no literary man who respected himself would connive in a boom. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Then Cazalet introduced himself to the old gardener whom he had known all his life; and by rights the man should have wept outright, or else emitted a rustic epigram laden with wise humor. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z There is an arsenal of epigram in the little essay called "Weapons of Precision," and it is pleasant to see that their effective range is more than 3000 miles. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z A grain of sand in the wrong place, as the old epigrams have told us,—in Cæsar's eye, for example,—may change the course of history. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z In it were compiled epigrams, phrases and quotations from all of his earlier books. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z His epigrams are worthy of the literary artist in that they are perfect in form. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z The whole epigram is so good that I venture to transcribe it. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc 2011-07-26T02:00:17.693Z "Programme was taken from the French," so a recent writer reminds us, "and in violation of analogy, seeing that, when it was imported into English, we had already anagram, cryptogram, diogram, epigram, etc." Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z A good many epigrams have been levelled at Carlyle, and he has more than once been ridiculed as the philosopher who preached the virtues of silence in thirty volumes. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Quaint mottoes, sketches and epigrams—the souvenirs of artistic and satisfied souls—decorated the walls. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z There are many people who believe that Mr. Reed himself disproves one of his epigrams, that “a statesman is a successful politician who is dead.” McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z These poems are chiefly lyrical, consisting of odes, sonnets, epigrams. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z It was of that transaction that Cobden said, "Palmerston was so impartial, that he had no bias, not even towards the truth," showing that he could speak epigrams that cut into a reputation. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Too much swine in your 124 nature to make people think you were sincere in your profuse epigram on the tombstone. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z There was much in the mental companionship of Mr. Saltus and Wilde which sharpened and stimulated each, making their conversation a battle-ground of aphorisms and epigrams. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Here is the brevity, the good taste, the light touch, the neat epigram, the avoidance of whatever might stir passion, controversy, or laborious thought, which characterize the conversation of a well-bred man. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z His style is elegant, but is so concise as to be sometimes obscure; and he occasionally indulges in epigram. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The light firm touch and quiet epigram would make the dullest subject readable; and this subject is not dull. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z I remember that in my first association with him I had a sort of fear at each moment that he would knock me down the next with an epigram. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The next writing put it into readable form, and on this second he always worked the hardest, transforming sentences into graceful transitions,—interjecting epigrams, witticisms and clever dialogue, and penetrating the whole with his personality. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z The editorial flashed with wit and stung with bitter epigram. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Every one remembers the epigram which this royal gift provoked. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z Certain details of the picture by Apelles are to be obtained from Grecian epigrams. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z He belongs to the breed of sharp raillers, whose skepticism points an epigram. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z "You have it—and in one of your epigrams, as usual," Phil agreed. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Busby, who peddled epigrams, murmured to himself with a view to future authorship, "A cocktail is an explosion of spirits; a cocktail...." The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Thomson and Shenstone had used it in work of mild and leisurely playfulness, but to bite in satire or sting in epigram it cannot effectively be bent. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The daintiness of my epigram pleased me so well that I was almost content, yet as I drove towards Le Bois the desire for the costume came upon me again, and I was disconsolate. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z The Head Masters are apprehensive, to be sure, that "the young people might thereby get more wit into their heads than is proper, if one should read Seneca, epigrams and corrupt authors." The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Had these γράμματα indeed been an authentic register, inscribed at the time of each victory, is it possible that any epigrams of later date would have been allowed to conflict with it? Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z A discouraged observation from the artist had elicited Kent’s epigram. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z They appear to have taken their notion of an epigram from the Greek anthology, where the term was confined to any inscription for a statue or a tomb, or any object to be commemorated. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Thus a familiar epigram may be challenged in order to indicate the trend of this book which aims to treat certain phases of visual illusions. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z I don't recollect giving Scheff any "epigram" on woman or anything else. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z He was seventh p. 87or eighth wrangler and first medallist, and obtained a prize for Greek epigrams. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z The statesmen of the period, whenever they were puzzled in English, immediately had recourse to the safe obscurity of a Latin or Greek epigram. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z An epigram now is a short satire closing with a point of wit. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Musset exhibits something of the wit that he was, in the following bit of rhymed epigram, which, breaking up two stanzas for the purpose, we take from his poem entitled “Namouna.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z One word has all the sparkle of an epigram. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Don't you know that the book of at least one good play begins with some epigrams in the garden, and ends with—— Puppet Number Two. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.693Z Apocryphal or otherwise the epigram of Fontenoy should at least be worth subsistence to all who bear this name. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Wit, in our present sense, was yet unpractised, and the modern epigram was not yet discovered. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z This self-vindicating epigram of Musset’s may be pronounced clever rather than satisfactory. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z That inquiry, doubtless, she would have pushed more closely home, and there would have been no escape for the nimble wit except in some happy and elusive epigram. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z The Greeks placed on their monuments, statues, and tombs, short poetical inscriptions, written in a simple style, and it was from this practice that we derive the epigram. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z If there is any one in the company whom you do not know, be careful how you let off any epigrams or pleasant little sarcasms. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z Of these six hundred epigrams it is possible not a single one is epigrammatic: we have never had a Martial. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Here he received, as probably he deserved, that celebrated compliment in epigram from Louis XIV.: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He consoled himself for his plots by taking extraordinary liberties with them, and amused himself with quips, bons-mots, epigrams and repartee that had really nothing to do with the business in hand. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The French are, perhaps, the most gifted writers of epigrams. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z It is pretty good patter, as patter goes, inclining to quotation, epigram, and homely philosophy, delivered in an assured "platform manner." Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Wit, in our sense of the term, was long unpractised, and the modern epigram was not yet discovered. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z A wholly baseless anecdote, condensed into a stinging epigram by Endymion Porter, asserted that The Lover’s Melancholy was stolen by Ford from Shakespeare’s papers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The anonymous epigrams here inserted are probably not in their proper chronological places. Love, Worship and Death Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology 2011-04-21T02:00:45.290Z The birthplace of Homer is a disputed point, and has given rise to not a few essays and epigrams. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Through this omission I have lost traces of innumerable epigrams jeux-d'esprit; and even where my memory has occasionally relieved the effort, I have forgotten the author. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Collier has preserved an old satirical epigram which had been perilous to print at that day; it was left for posterity on the fly-leaf of a book. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is more interesting to notice an epigram in honour of Ford by Richard Crashaw, morbidly passionate in one direction as Ford was in another. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z And this is a well-conceived epigram: How calm thy life, how easy, how secure Thou intellectual epicure. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Byron made his unhappy marriage the subject of at least three epigrams. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z There is little point—that is, there is no epigram—in the 'Trial.' Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z The epigram I quoted in 'The Knight' was repeated to me at least twenty years back by a singularly agreeable and gifted conversationalist, the late Wm. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Many so-called epitaphs are mere witty jeux d'esprit, which might be described as epigrams, and which were never intended seriously for monumental inscriptions. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z And as the angel of our Commonweal Troubling the waters, yearly mak'st them heal, may pass as an epigram. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Lord H. full of an epigram he had just written on Southey, which we all twisted and turned into various shapes; he is as happy as a boy during the operation. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z And how it taught me to measure the force of the French epigram that it was the alternating popularity of Marshal Soult that decided whether he won or lost the battle of Toulouse! Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z During the laughter that followed this enthusiastic epigram Arthur ushered the party into the quaint Spanish restaurant. Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z In Roman classical poetry the term was somewhat indiscriminately used, but the epigrams of Martial contain a great number with the modern epigrammatic character. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Clever beyond question; every couplet is an undeniable epigram, lucid, well-digested, elaborate; pointed, yet finikin withal,—it is easy to find a string of epithets for it. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Amongst the writers of Latin epigrams, Catullus and Martial occupy leading places. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z First of all, an O'D. need not, nor can it, be always an epigram; it must occasionally be an argument epigrammatically treated, and 'Close and the Carmelite' is, I believe, such. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z And with this final epigram, Knowlton got up, stretched, and guessed he would go to bed. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z For the twentieth time Ruby laughed and crowed over the dubious epigram. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z To couple his name, falsely or truly, with an epigram gave it an indefinable prestige; his personality thrown into the scale made a sarcasm that might have passed unnoticed into a crushing hit. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Schiller and Goethe did not, however, follow the usual practice of their countrymen, but wrote many satirical epigrams, having great force. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z I threw my sorrows into a doggerel epigram as I was in my bath this morning.— Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Many caustic epigrams occurred to me as I brushed my hair. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z In another epigram, written on the death of the Cardinal, he pretends that Ippolito, hearing of Alfonso's illness, vowed his own life for his brother's and was accepted. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Do you remember his epigram on the old woman who taught Newton the ABC, which, after all, he says, he hesitates not to call Newton's Principia? Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Many of our English poets have displayed a fine faculty of writing epigrams. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Is there any use in inventing epigrams for such an auditory? Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z "What was that you allude to?—an epigram, was it?" The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z He never ceases to be kindly; and we feel, while listening to him, that his epigrams are double-edged. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Lipsius believes Alphenus to be Pompey, and thinks that the epigram, directed against him, is supposed to be written in the person of Cicero. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z All that we know concerning its discovery is contained in a barbarous Latin epigram, written by Guarinus of Verona, who chose to give his information on the subject in an almost unintelligible riddle. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z "Why do you not laugh at my epigram?" she demanded. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z The man who deems a witty "mot" a triumph, is just as ready to accept a severe epigram as a death-wound. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Antiochus has wit; he makes an epigram against Rodogune; he ingeniously likens her last words in going away, to the arrows which the Parthians used to discharge in their flight. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The fragments of his epigrams which remain, do not enable us to judge for ourselves of his poetical merits. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It is from poetry that the elegies of Catullus derive almost all their tenderness—his amorous verses all their delicacy, playfulness, or voluptuousness—and his epigrams all their sting. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Most of the epigrams also were about marriage. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Voltaire endowed the middle classes of France with a voice, united the disaffected of all classes, and peppered their indignation with pungent epigrams. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z Music expresses passions, sentiments, images; but where are the notes that can render an epigram? A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Epic, dramatic, satiric, and didactic poetry, were all successively attempted by him; and we also learn that he exercised himself in lighter sorts of verse, as the epigram and acrostic218. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Mobs daily paraded the streets, passing the Palace; the cry, “No bishops!” came in through its windows, and Charles trembled as he thought of his father’s significant epigram, “No bishop, no king.” No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z But up to date Professor Baker has stood up splendidly under this yearly barrage of epigrams. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z One thing was soon very evident to every one in Rome: The new secretary was not a man whose character could be summed up in an epigram. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z The epigram, therefore, is false; and if Rodogune did not go away, this bad epigram could not be retained. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The epigram, however, appears chiefly directed against those cross-examiners, who are not to be put off with indefinite answers, and in whose company one must be constantly on guard. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "And who are the two men, exactly alike, tall and dark, who are smoking gold-tipped cigarettes, and talking epigrams?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z The play, in its philosophic development, ends here; but Goethe added several more details and scenes, with that abundance, that love, of symbolic pictures and poetic epigrams which characterizes the whole second part. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z One day he wrote, and thundered out, an epigram on his wife:— 'From the first Paradise an angel once drove Adam; From mine a fiend expelled me: Thank you, madam.' Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The Augustan list of proscriptions and the filthy epigram against Fulvia, are not the productions of a divinity. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z An epigram, as is well known, was originally what we now call a device or inscription, and the term remained, though the thing itself was changed511. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Much better fun to have to listen to epigrams and all that sort of thing, than to have to follow something or other with interest. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z Ruskin failed to arouse him, he wove too much artistry into his appeal; and Carlyle could not move him, his epigrams were too rhapsodical. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z He said it was not impossible at all; they might each choose their own subject, but an epigram they must write. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z His erudition was large but ill-digested; his knowledge of the ancient authors, if extensive, was superficial; his style was vulgar; he had no brilliancy of imagination, no pungency of epigram, no grandeur of rhetoric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z There only remain, an epigram against Pompey, satirizing his practice of scratching his head with one finger, and a fragment of another against Julius Cæsar523. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It would appear that it was in the effort to solve this problem that Men�chmus discovered the conic sections, which are called, in an epigram by Eratosthenes, “the triads of Men�chmus”. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z It is full of epigram and gives an excellent description of the Bermudas and the Winter Colony there. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z One day he told the boys in his class that they must write an English epigram. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z A successful epigram at another's expense gives many of us more pleasure than a compliment paid to ourselves. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?... in brief since I do purpose to marry I will think nothing to any purpose the world can say against it,'—a happy quotation. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Archimedes is further credited with the authorship of the famous Cattle-Problem enunciated in a Greek epigram edited by Lessing in 1773. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z No elegies indeed appeared on the occasion,—"no tears eternal that embalm the dead;" but a shower of epigrams and bon mots—some exquisitely witty and malicious. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z “Few English writers have so lapidarian a style of writing as Mrs. Craigie, and few such a capacity for writing epigrams.” The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z And when these judgments were winged by epigram, and weighted by the name of Erasmus, who stood at the head of letters, a widespread exasperation was the consequence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Blanden was obliged to confess that this criticism of Spiegeler was a collection of flowers of the most pointed epigrams, that it was spiteful, and in its way annihilating. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z From being the lady's lover, Marot became her satirist; instead of chansons in praise of her beauty, he circulated the most biting and insufferable epigrams on her person and character. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z "Well," said Mr. Pope with a fine air of epigram, "the only thing I can say is—to eat it," and prepared to sit down. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The epigram is one of the most catholic of literary forms, and lends itself to the expression of almost any feeling or thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Three epigrams in the Palatine anthology, also ascribed to her, probably belong to a later date. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z I was going to say temper, but it would seem an epigram. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z I would gasp ill-natured epigrams from morning till night. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Disputing the point, they made inquiries for the price, and learnt that this bright epigram in colour was going begging—was even offered at a reduction from the catalogue price. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z From its very brevity there is no small danger of the epigram passing into childish triviality: the paltriest pun, a senseless anagram, is considered stuff enough and to spare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z To which is added A Choice Collection of Moral Sentences; also a selection of curious epigrams. Humbly inscribed to the choice spirits of the age. A new edition. London: printed for W. Lane, . . . A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z She had many such dry and stinging epigrams at her sharp tongue's end in those days, when she was using wit, satire, irony, and ridicule as weapons to defend her late-coming happiness. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Taper’s suggestion in Coningsby that the Conservatives should go to the country with the cry, “Our young queen and our old institutions,” expressed, in an epigram, a prevalent idea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Her mind seemed suddenly to have become crystal clear; her gay retorts to lively badinage, and her laughing epigrams were deliciously spontaneous. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Of the epigram as cultivated by the Greeks an account is given in the article Anthology, discussing those wonderful collections which bid fair to remain the richest of their kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z What a rather clumsy epigram has called "the audacity of elected persons" is part of this truth. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z Here is no chance for long periods, nor flights of oratory; but sentences as short and sharp as swords, flashes of feeling, stinging epigrams. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Whenever we passed a country-seat, out came a lot of anecdotes and legends connected with its owners, interlarded with quaint fancies and epigrams.” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z To take up with Luther, and to reject Calvin and Socinus, would be, according to that epigram, like living in a house without a roof to it. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Ben Jonson furnishes a number of noble examples in his Underwoods; and one or two of Spenser’s little poems and a great many of Herrick’s are properly classed as epigrams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Few great books have been so widely quoted as this masterpiece of the great Spaniard; few have contributed so many apt stories and pungent epigrams. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Quote passages which illustrate his skill in epigram. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z It is said that Alleyn—who was a man of fortune, and whom a contemporary epigram styles the best actor of his day—gained the most of his money by the exhibition of bears. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z But then his talk—so clever, if so blasphemous; bristling with little pointed epigrams and maxims such as she had never before heard from him or any one else. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Few English modern poets have followed in his footsteps, and though nearly all might plead guilty to an epigram or two, there is no one who has a distinct reputation as an epigrammatist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Byron in Childe Harold, with his cunning trick of epigram, said that Cervantes "smiled Spain's chivalry away," but chivalry was as dead in the days of Cervantes as it is now. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z It is classed with his epigrams, but it may properly be considered in connection with the medley of his satires. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z The person who conceived that smartness belongs with the one who invented the "intelligence" epigram. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z “It is the unexpected that happens,” said Disraeli in one of his happiest epigrams. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z A large number of epigrams and much miscellaneous information in regard to their origin, application and translation is scattered through Notes and Queries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I remarked at the time that the delay excited ill-natured remarks; two mothers of pretty girls invited to the fête did not refrain from epigrams launched at the bride. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z They abound in brilliant epigrams, graphic descriptions, touching pathos, magnificent passion, subtile analysis of character and motive. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z But I was somehow too dull for her epigram. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z This Australian musician is responsible for the European epigram of "white Crows that sing." An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z On the subsequent history of the epigram, indeed, Martial has exercised an influence as baneful as it is extensive, and he may fairly be counted the far-off progenitor of a host of scurrilous verses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "What do you think of the epigrams she levels at us?" said the Count. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z And in that jocular epigram lies a meaning almost beyond words to express. The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z But stay, this is taking me to Africa, not Spain; and Africa does not begin at the other side of the Pyrenees, the epigram of Dumas to the contrary notwithstanding. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z A sort of marionette show in which the performers seem to count as auxiliaries to the epigrams parcelled out by the author. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z The designation epigram, however, is used by earlier English writers with excessive laxity, and given or withheld without apparent reason. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Gentlemen, won't you drop your epigrams and try some of my port? The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A Play in Five Acts This latter would appear to be rather an epigram than a proverb. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources L. E. L. We cannot better conclude our account of this important Deity, than by the following epigram, written under one of his statues. Heathen Mythology We need not accept literally Pliny’s praises of his Atticism, and of the grace and sweetness of his Greek epigrams. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The French are undoubtedly the most successful cultivators of the “salt” and the “vinegar” epigram; and from the 16th century downwards many of their principal authors have earned no small celebrity in this department. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He wrote epigrams, idyls, eclogues, letters in verse, &c., still extant, and was probably a Christian. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The epigrams are, most of them, of a most offensive character. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The smartest epigrams, the fairest similes, the keenest satires, spoken or sung on such occasions, were treasured in the memory of the hearers and carried by them to their homes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" He had enjoyed the society of the most brilliant circles, and exchanged epigrams and repartees with the best; he had also seen them steeped in debauchery and treachery, and terror-stricken in base compliance. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Its usual vesture is a long purple period, freely Latinized, though Browne equally commands the form of solemn and monumental epigram. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Translations, Imitations, &c.—The best versions of the Anthology ever made are the Latin renderings of select epigrams by Hugo Grotius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" She passed in review all the men she had ever known, beginning with her kind-hearted, genial father, the clever humorist artist, who could define a man's character in an epigram so skillfully. Love Works Wonders A Novel Never had Leicester spoken as he spoke that night, for in addition to brilliant epigram, scathing criticism, and searching analysis there was a great moral fervour. The Man Who Rose Again Gossip, lampoon, and epigram redoubled suspicion, while they retaliated offences. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is often by no means easy to trace the history of even a single epigram, and the investigator soon learns to be cautious of congratulating himself on the attainment of a genuine original. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The arrangement of his collection was alphabetical, according to the initial letter of each epigram. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" It is scarcely possible to think that an epigram of this heavy order could have been praised by Walpole, if his criticism had not been tempered by the tenderness of paternity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Instead, there was popularly circulated and remembered an epigram upon him coined by some adversary whose identity is unknown. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Juvenal and Martial are often probably dressing up the rough epigrams of the crowd. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius There are several ascribed to Simonides on the heroes of Thermopylae, of which the most celebrated is the epigram— “Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z We are, however, indebted to him for the preservation of the epigrams on works of art, which seem to have been accidentally omitted from our only transcript of Cephalas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Had Marston had the making of the famous epigram, he would not have said he mixed his paints with brains. The Key to Yesterday Concerning the mother of Tlepolemus, see the epigram, quoted below, p. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Ben Jonson, among the poets, extolled in an epigram his “wing’d judgements,” “purest hands,” and constancy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Naturally this influence told most strongly on the social forms of verse and prose—upon comedy and satire, upon criticism and maxim and epigram, while it also affected theology and thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The epigrams on works of art, as already stated, are missing from the Codex Palatinus, and must be sought in an appendix of epigrams only occurring in the Planudean Anthology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Meanwhile his talent for aphorisms and epigrams may fairly be compared with theirs: some of his clever sayings are more than clever,—they show real insight and a comprehensive grasp. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Yet, in an epigram of Simonides, the valour of the Tegeates is praised, who by their death had saved their city from destruction;819 probably after the loss of the first battle. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Did you ever hear that epigram of Disraeli--that all men should marry, but no women? The Preliminaries And Other Stories His larger movement, his easier modulation, his richer tone, his rarer epithet and epigram, his metaphor "glowing from the heart," mark the defection from the poetry of cold conceit. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The epigrams hitherto recovered from ancient monuments and similar sources form appendices in the second and third volumes of D�bner’s edition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Lord Henry's mission in the book is to lead Dorian Gray to destruction; and he does so, if you please, at the end of a string of epigrams. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Sometimes the epigram is positively rude; when it is not rude it is so dull that no one wonders that the tiger's head on the rug represents the tiger as yawning. The Inventions of the Idiot Life is an Olympian epigram made between immortal yawns. The Moonlit Way In this epigram, the maid dedicates her dolls to Artemis; and in that, the mother, mother and priestess both, lays down a life overflowing in good deeds and fruited with honorable offspring. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 This style of composition is not properly Greek, but Roman; it answers to the modern definition of epigram, and has hence attained a celebrity in excess of its deserts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Compare epigraph, epigram, photographic, phosphorus, graph, diagram. intend. Stories from Tagore "Never mind him, sir," said Corrigan to Cashel; "one might travesty the well-known epigram, and say of him that he never said a kind thing, nor did a rude one, in his life." Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) De Modène revenged himself by the famous epigram which caused an order of arrest, and compelled his flight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 For six centuries and more, or as long as separates us from Chaucer, men had been writing these brief epigrams. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 They sought also to dazzle by means of strange or flowery metaphors, by unusual figures of speech, by epigrams and paradoxes, and in general by being clever and smart, rather than earnest and truthful. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Fortunately a second series of epigrams, written in maturer years, gave him an excuse to republish the first series in connection with them, in the year of his death, 1619. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII If an Englishman had said the same thing, he would have been thought half-witted, but Orientals have a way of talking platitudes as if they were epigrams. The Unveiling of Lhasa This historical epigram ought to be hung in all the vocal studios of America. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists To his collection Philippus of Thessalonica, working when Paul was preaching in Jason's house, added the work of the Roman period, the fourth development of the epigram. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 He wrote a bitter epigram on London, in which city, by the bye, he had been most unmercifully p. 27fleeced. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition The first public sign of his literary art was his book of 'Poemata,' the Latin epigrams referred to, which appeared in 1595, and every copy of which has disappeared. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He composed odes, elegies, epigrams, dramatic pieces and an unfinished epic, the Theodoriceis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" These epigrammatic sentences, which, with but few exceptions, are but half epigrams, are somewhat aggravating, especially if too constantly repeated, since they thus picture neither common nor uncommon talk. Maria Edgeworth But no translation equals the sanity, the brevity, the clarity of the Greek original, qualities which have made these epigrams consummate models of style to the modern world. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 |
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