英语词汇“mock-heroic”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And a typical day in the night, as it were, becomes a sentimental, mock-heroic epic. | 'Super Night Shot': Gob Squad?s ?Super Night Shot? at Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-07T00:49:11Z

The flashbacks play out in a mock-heroic style with tinges of magic realism — a leopard emerging from the forest at an opportune moment, a gang boss punishing his enemies in a particularly crushing manner. Review: The Criminal Life in Mumbai in ‘Sacred Games’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

By the show's end, stage furniture strewn and mic-stand broken, Gilbert has burst blood vessels for our pleasure; here's hoping success does nothing to diminish his mock-heroic rage. Rhod Gilbert - review 2011-01-07T22:00:01Z

The confrontation, if that’s what you want to call it, involved a blatant overspill of melismatic bravado, but its framing — fraternal, mock-heroic, slyly self-aware — highlighted something greater, an irrepressible spirit of play. Music Review: Take 6, at the Blue Note 2013-05-09T21:03:32Z

It is mock-heroic and actually heroic at once. TV Picks: 'Drunk History,' 'William Shatner's Brown Bag Wine' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

"Scenes in the Life of Mrs Bell" was then followed by "The Dunciad", comprising episodes in the mock-heroic life of Duncan Grant. New Virginia Woolf published 2013-06-15T07:59:02Z

Both the conversations and interior monologues proceed in a tone that you might call mock-heroic if Richards and Crandall weren’t each so pungently earnest. Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z

Here, he gives it extra zest with the mock-heroic treatment. Poem of the week: A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood 2010-06-22T09:36:00Z

I have no intention of doing that, nor any compulsion to write some mock-heroic thing. Mike Davis is still a damn good storyteller 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.” University of Chicago professor satirizes abortion supporters in Telegram poetry group 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

His delivery is important, too, said Seargeant, “because this compliments the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things.” Boris Johnson's magniloquent tongue reaps political gold, linguists... 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

Black recalled the other day, slipping into the booming, mock-heroic voice that serves as one of his trademarks as a movie star. Why Tenacious D took its filthy new project to the wilds of YouTube - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Thus motivated, “we got a band together, and it all happened right here,” he went on, raising his arms in mock-heroic triumph. Steely Dan without Walter Becker? It's not the travesty you might expect 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

He removed the English bare-knuckle boxer George Stevenson, for instance, whose death is mentioned in the 1744 mock-heroic poem “The Gymnasiad, or Boxing Match.” An Obsessive Chronicle of Deaths in the Ring 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

This tone, essentially mock-heroic, is extremely difficult to maintain, and it can’t be said that “Fates and Furies” finally succeeds in that maintenance. Lauren Groff and the Mythology of Marriage 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The Kippenberger is one of five, mock-heroic portraits of the artist as a drunk, overweight, middle-aged Pablo Picasso, and is one of his most iconic images. A Christie's Auction Brings Together the Art, and History, of Jeff Koons and Martin Kippenberger 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

"He was," says Cohen with a mock-heroic flourish, "a kind of existentialist, skirting the line between wealth and oblivion, health and rot": imagine Sartre manning a market stall. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen – review 2012-07-20T10:00:02Z

It is not necessary to point out at length the persistence of this mock-heroic spirit. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z

We have trodden the ways of Spanish story, sublime, mock-heroic, and humorous. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z

Then we see that the great figures painted by these artists have something flickering, tremulous, and dizzy about them, and accordingly we do not ascribe to them heroic deeds, but at best mock-heroic, swaggering misdeeds. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z

In 1699 he published a mock-heroic poem, The Dispensary, in six cantos, which had an instant success, passing through three editions within a year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z

Oddly enough, the one part of the book which moves rather heavily is the opening chapter, an effort in the mock-heroic, probably suggested by the author’s eighteenth century readings. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z

I trust, however, it has been made sufficiently clear that Don Juan is something quite different from the mere mock-heroic—from Pulci, for instance, "sire of the half-serious rhyme," whom Byron professed to imitate. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z

Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z

The mock-heroic effect produced by the learning of Chauntecleer and the weight of the illustrations which he adduces in support of his faith in dreams, is inimitable. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z

More formal and regular, more confessedly ambitious, literary essays of his, were poems in every kind—heroic, mock-heroic, lyric, elegiac, comic, tragic, satiric—historical and biographical monographs, and tales or novels of a peculiar class. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z

Others widen the definition so as to include not only long narrative poems of romantic or supernatural adventure, but also those of an historical, legendary, mock-heroic, or humorous character. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z

Pyramus, thinking her dead, sings a furious mock-heroic song, "Approach, ye furies," followed by "Now am I dead," a beautiful plaintive burlesque with obbligato parts for two oboes. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z

Madam!" said he, with a mock-heroic air, "I am not a brute! Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z

Were we to put the whole body of bad language to a judicial trial, we should in fairness be compelled to admit the extenuating circumstance of a time-expired claim to the mock-heroic and the ludicrous. A Cursory History of Swearing

"We are saved!" he said, in mock-heroic phrase. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop

It is a mock-heroic tale, in dog-Latin, of a country feud on the Fifeshire lands of his old friends the Cunninghams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin"

“Not a word!” commanded Charles, with mock-heroic mien. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time

In the mock-heroic vein that runs through the whole poem. Select Poems of Thomas Gray

But his sense was not such as to restrain him from a mock-heroic correspondence with Andrew Erskine, brother of the Earl of Kellie. James Boswell Famous Scots Series

The ballads are mock-heroic, parodies of the ballads of chivalry. In a Little Town

"Farewell, my fine dreams," said Helen, in mock-heroic declamation, which did not blind him to the pain beneath. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real

The scale is immeasurably aggrandized—multitudes of dunces are comprehended—the composition is elaborate—the mock-heroic, admirable in Dryden, is carried to perfection, and we have, sui generis, a regular epic poem. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845

"Good Lord!" and there was a touch of the mock-heroic in the Kentuckian's voice, which escaped his companions. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play

Cast your eye over his productions; consider their extent, and contemplate their variety:—pastoral, passion, mock-heroic, translation, satire, ethics,—all excellent, and often perfect. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

The hopelessness of the contest on the part of the executive, and the pertinacity with which it has been waged, have given it a mock-heroic character. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism

That he could succeed tolerably in the mock-heroic vein, may be seen in his parody on Pindar's ariston men hydor, entitled Gooseberry Pie, and in some of the occasional pieces called Nondescripts. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852

Compare Keats's use of the form with that of either of his contemporaries, and notice how he avoids the epigrammatic close, telling in satire and mock-heroic, but inappropriate to a serious and romantic poem. Keats: Poems Published in 1820

Pope is seen at his best in his satires and epistles, and in the mock-heroic. Obiter Dicta Second Series

“There!” exclaimed Lewis, mentally, as he gazed straight down into her wondering orbs, and then added aloud, as he swept his arm aloft with a mock-heroic air, “behold it gleaming on the mountain-ridges.” Rivers of Ice

Hudibras, a mock-heroic poem, written to ridicule the Puritan and Parliamentarian party. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

He annoys his daughter by sometimes calling her ‘Belinda,’ and astonishes his wife with his mock-heroic apostrophes to her hood and patches. The Bibliotaph and Other People

Some of the speeches have an insincere and mock-heroic tone to the reader twenty years after the event. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

Delicate fancy and real poetical fancy may be turned to account; but under the mask of the mock-heroic. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century

“Hear, hear, ma!” cried the irreverent Percy, with mock-heroic applause. A Dog with a Bad Name

Another critic has called it the “perfection of the mock-heroic.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

But, he reflected, he had not much to fear from this mock-heroic junior, and as long as he kept him in sight no great harm could happen. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton

But it is comedy, not tragedy; it is a mock-heroic, following the lines of the heroic model, consistently and steadily, and serving as a touchstone for the vanity of the heroic age. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature

Pope accordingly set to work at a dainty little mock-heroic, in which he describes, in playful mockery of the conventional style, the fatal coffee-drinking at Hampton, in which the too daring peer appropriated the lock. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series

This mock-heroic is just the vein for a theme so ridiculous as the insane crudities here touched upon. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1

In method the French painters followed the late Italians, and imitated an imitation; in matter they bowed to the dictates of the court and reflected the king's mock-heroic spirit. A Text-Book of the History of Painting

And, in a slightly mock-heroic tone, she began to recite it: Maiden, the sunshine of thine eye, Flashing my joyous waves along, The magic of thy soul-lit smile, Have waked my murmuring voice to song. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters

One Samuel Butler, a celebrated buffoon in the abandoned reign of Charles the Second, wrote a mock-heroic poem, in which he undertook to burlesque the pious puritan. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2

This racy piece of satire is taken from Lord Beaconsfield's mock-heroic romance—written in imitation of Gulliver's Travels,—The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, of which it forms the fourth chapter. English Satires

Probably he had seen girls do this, in mock-heroic fashion, in some London court. Macleod of Dare

It failed in its principal purpose of reconciliation, but it has given us the best mock-heroic poem in the language. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

The description of his method of reading is admirable, and the amazing stump-campaign in America attains, in Mr. Marzials’ hands, to the dignity of a mock-heroic poem. Reviews

Hence in our England's East his hand Turned, in a story sternly grand, A motley mock-heroic page. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891

An interview in the mock-heroic style between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief was received with immense applause, which came loudest of all from the loyalists of the colony. Twice Told Tales

Because of his simplicity, absence of fussiness, avoidance of the mock-heroic, of the inflated "grand manner," critics have pressed too heavily upon this same simplicity. Promenades of an Impressionist

Anster Fair, a mock-heroic poem, in ottava rima, full of fancy and humour, which at once brought him reputation. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

But in pure comedy, mixed with farce and mock-heroic parody, he belongs to the school of "rare Ben." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4

And they must have felt instinctively what only a laborious erudition reveals to us, the sudden subtle modulations of the colloquial comic verse into mock-heroic travesty of high tragedy or lyric. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2

He wore it with an air that was a strange mixture of the mock-heroic and the pathetic. California Sketches, Second Series

For the first time we heard "Elijah" represented by a great artist, and not by a sentimental, mock-heroic singer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858

Batrachomyomachia, a mock-heroic poem, "The Battle of the Frogs and Mice," falsely ascribed to Homer. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge

In this kind of mock-heroic, he is without a rival in our language, for Dryden has written nothing of the kind. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V.

But there was this pointed difference, that Butler's poem is burlesque, and Dryden's mock-heroic. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author

In "MacFlecknoe," the mock-heroic is sustained with unparalleled vigour from the first line to the last. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes

The description of Mokanna in the fight, though it has spirit and grandeur of effect, has still a great alloy of the mock-heroic in it. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits

The whole scene is a masterpiece of the mock-heroic. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems

Pope made a mock-heroic poem on the subject, in which he satirized the fads and fashions of Queen Anne's age. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

However this may be, they were mock-heroic compositions in which the subjects consecrated by tragic usage were travestied or burlesqued. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

On comparing a few passages with the original, I perceive that he fails alike in representing the dignity of Cervantes in the mock-heroic, and the familiarity of his lighter manner. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives

Of these the description of a lady's footman's daily life, from within, has a good deal of sprightliness, and displays quite a little mastery of the mock-heroic couplet. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

In commenting on their failure, an Athenaeum critic has explained the pre-established fitness of the ottava rima—the first six lines of which are a dance, and the concluding couplet a "breakdown"—for the mock-heroic. Byron

Yet with all his mock-heroic notoriety, the toller Pückler was by no means destitute of those practical qualities which tempered the Teutonic Romanticism, even in its earliest and most extravagant developments. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

Chauvelin was not the man for such a mock-heroic, melodramatic situation. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

So Pope took up his pen and wrote a mock-heroic poem making friendly fun of the whole matter. English Literature for Boys and Girls

Numerous incidents of the mock-heroic style, if analysed, would reveal the same elements. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

They used to be written on trifling or obscene subjects in a mock-heroic style. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

With mock-heroic air, she raised her white arm, and motioned away those who were immediately around her person. Prince Eugene and His Times

"England, home and beauty!" said Vetch, with a mock-heroic air, strangely out of tune with the subject under discussion. For the Term of His Natural Life

The voice and mock-heroic attitude of the speaker was enough to relieve the general embarrassment with a laugh. The Twins of Table Mountain

It has given birth to the mock-heroic poem, a rather old-fashioned device, I admit, though traces of it are still to be found in persons inclined to exaggerate methodically. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Put into everyday English the whole scheme sounded visionary and mock-heroic. A Poor Wise Man

Look out for your digestion, and only look," he added, with a mock-heroic gesture, "at the majestic, thrice holy, and edifying appearance of this amiable capitalist's dining-room. The Magic Skin

It might often be said of braggadocio that it is its mock-heroic aspect which makes us laugh. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

单词	mock-heroic
例句	mock-heroic She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And a typical day in the night, as it were, becomes a sentimental, mock-heroic epic. \| 'Super Night Shot': Gob Squad?s ?Super Night Shot? at Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-07T00:49:11Z The flashbacks play out in a mock-heroic style with tinges of magic realism — a leopard emerging from the forest at an opportune moment, a gang boss punishing his enemies in a particularly crushing manner. Review: The Criminal Life in Mumbai in ‘Sacred Games’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z By the show's end, stage furniture strewn and mic-stand broken, Gilbert has burst blood vessels for our pleasure; here's hoping success does nothing to diminish his mock-heroic rage. Rhod Gilbert - review 2011-01-07T22:00:01Z The confrontation, if that’s what you want to call it, involved a blatant overspill of melismatic bravado, but its framing — fraternal, mock-heroic, slyly self-aware — highlighted something greater, an irrepressible spirit of play. Music Review: Take 6, at the Blue Note 2013-05-09T21:03:32Z It is mock-heroic and actually heroic at once. TV Picks: 'Drunk History,' 'William Shatner's Brown Bag Wine' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z "Scenes in the Life of Mrs Bell" was then followed by "The Dunciad", comprising episodes in the mock-heroic life of Duncan Grant. New Virginia Woolf published 2013-06-15T07:59:02Z Both the conversations and interior monologues proceed in a tone that you might call mock-heroic if Richards and Crandall weren’t each so pungently earnest. Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z Here, he gives it extra zest with the mock-heroic treatment. Poem of the week: A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood 2010-06-22T09:36:00Z I have no intention of doing that, nor any compulsion to write some mock-heroic thing. Mike Davis is still a damn good storyteller 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.” University of Chicago professor satirizes abortion supporters in Telegram poetry group 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z His delivery is important, too, said Seargeant, “because this compliments the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things.” Boris Johnson's magniloquent tongue reaps political gold, linguists... 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Black recalled the other day, slipping into the booming, mock-heroic voice that serves as one of his trademarks as a movie star. Why Tenacious D took its filthy new project to the wilds of YouTube - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Thus motivated, “we got a band together, and it all happened right here,” he went on, raising his arms in mock-heroic triumph. Steely Dan without Walter Becker? It's not the travesty you might expect 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z He removed the English bare-knuckle boxer George Stevenson, for instance, whose death is mentioned in the 1744 mock-heroic poem “The Gymnasiad, or Boxing Match.” An Obsessive Chronicle of Deaths in the Ring 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z This tone, essentially mock-heroic, is extremely difficult to maintain, and it can’t be said that “Fates and Furies” finally succeeds in that maintenance. Lauren Groff and the Mythology of Marriage 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The Kippenberger is one of five, mock-heroic portraits of the artist as a drunk, overweight, middle-aged Pablo Picasso, and is one of his most iconic images. A Christie's Auction Brings Together the Art, and History, of Jeff Koons and Martin Kippenberger 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z "He was," says Cohen with a mock-heroic flourish, "a kind of existentialist, skirting the line between wealth and oblivion, health and rot": imagine Sartre manning a market stall. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen – review 2012-07-20T10:00:02Z It is not necessary to point out at length the persistence of this mock-heroic spirit. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z We have trodden the ways of Spanish story, sublime, mock-heroic, and humorous. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Then we see that the great figures painted by these artists have something flickering, tremulous, and dizzy about them, and accordingly we do not ascribe to them heroic deeds, but at best mock-heroic, swaggering misdeeds. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z In 1699 he published a mock-heroic poem, The Dispensary, in six cantos, which had an instant success, passing through three editions within a year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Oddly enough, the one part of the book which moves rather heavily is the opening chapter, an effort in the mock-heroic, probably suggested by the author’s eighteenth century readings. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z I trust, however, it has been made sufficiently clear that Don Juan is something quite different from the mere mock-heroic—from Pulci, for instance, "sire of the half-serious rhyme," whom Byron professed to imitate. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z The mock-heroic effect produced by the learning of Chauntecleer and the weight of the illustrations which he adduces in support of his faith in dreams, is inimitable. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z More formal and regular, more confessedly ambitious, literary essays of his, were poems in every kind—heroic, mock-heroic, lyric, elegiac, comic, tragic, satiric—historical and biographical monographs, and tales or novels of a peculiar class. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Others widen the definition so as to include not only long narrative poems of romantic or supernatural adventure, but also those of an historical, legendary, mock-heroic, or humorous character. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Pyramus, thinking her dead, sings a furious mock-heroic song, "Approach, ye furies," followed by "Now am I dead," a beautiful plaintive burlesque with obbligato parts for two oboes. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Madam!" said he, with a mock-heroic air, "I am not a brute! Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z Were we to put the whole body of bad language to a judicial trial, we should in fairness be compelled to admit the extenuating circumstance of a time-expired claim to the mock-heroic and the ludicrous. A Cursory History of Swearing "We are saved!" he said, in mock-heroic phrase. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop It is a mock-heroic tale, in dog-Latin, of a country feud on the Fifeshire lands of his old friends the Cunninghams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" “Not a word!” commanded Charles, with mock-heroic mien. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time In the mock-heroic vein that runs through the whole poem. Select Poems of Thomas Gray But his sense was not such as to restrain him from a mock-heroic correspondence with Andrew Erskine, brother of the Earl of Kellie. James Boswell Famous Scots Series The ballads are mock-heroic, parodies of the ballads of chivalry. In a Little Town "Farewell, my fine dreams," said Helen, in mock-heroic declamation, which did not blind him to the pain beneath. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The scale is immeasurably aggrandized—multitudes of dunces are comprehended—the composition is elaborate—the mock-heroic, admirable in Dryden, is carried to perfection, and we have, sui generis, a regular epic poem. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 "Good Lord!" and there was a touch of the mock-heroic in the Kentuckian's voice, which escaped his companions. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Cast your eye over his productions; consider their extent, and contemplate their variety:—pastoral, passion, mock-heroic, translation, satire, ethics,—all excellent, and often perfect. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions The hopelessness of the contest on the part of the executive, and the pertinacity with which it has been waged, have given it a mock-heroic character. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism That he could succeed tolerably in the mock-heroic vein, may be seen in his parody on Pindar's ariston men hydor, entitled Gooseberry Pie, and in some of the occasional pieces called Nondescripts. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 Compare Keats's use of the form with that of either of his contemporaries, and notice how he avoids the epigrammatic close, telling in satire and mock-heroic, but inappropriate to a serious and romantic poem. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Pope is seen at his best in his satires and epistles, and in the mock-heroic. Obiter Dicta Second Series “There!” exclaimed Lewis, mentally, as he gazed straight down into her wondering orbs, and then added aloud, as he swept his arm aloft with a mock-heroic air, “behold it gleaming on the mountain-ridges.” Rivers of Ice Hudibras, a mock-heroic poem, written to ridicule the Puritan and Parliamentarian party. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 He annoys his daughter by sometimes calling her ‘Belinda,’ and astonishes his wife with his mock-heroic apostrophes to her hood and patches. The Bibliotaph and Other People Some of the speeches have an insincere and mock-heroic tone to the reader twenty years after the event. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Delicate fancy and real poetical fancy may be turned to account; but under the mask of the mock-heroic. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century “Hear, hear, ma!” cried the irreverent Percy, with mock-heroic applause. A Dog with a Bad Name Another critic has called it the “perfection of the mock-heroic.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 But, he reflected, he had not much to fear from this mock-heroic junior, and as long as he kept him in sight no great harm could happen. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton But it is comedy, not tragedy; it is a mock-heroic, following the lines of the heroic model, consistently and steadily, and serving as a touchstone for the vanity of the heroic age. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Pope accordingly set to work at a dainty little mock-heroic, in which he describes, in playful mockery of the conventional style, the fatal coffee-drinking at Hampton, in which the too daring peer appropriated the lock. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series This mock-heroic is just the vein for a theme so ridiculous as the insane crudities here touched upon. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 In method the French painters followed the late Italians, and imitated an imitation; in matter they bowed to the dictates of the court and reflected the king's mock-heroic spirit. A Text-Book of the History of Painting And, in a slightly mock-heroic tone, she began to recite it: Maiden, the sunshine of thine eye, Flashing my joyous waves along, The magic of thy soul-lit smile, Have waked my murmuring voice to song. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters One Samuel Butler, a celebrated buffoon in the abandoned reign of Charles the Second, wrote a mock-heroic poem, in which he undertook to burlesque the pious puritan. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 This racy piece of satire is taken from Lord Beaconsfield's mock-heroic romance—written in imitation of Gulliver's Travels,—The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, of which it forms the fourth chapter. English Satires Probably he had seen girls do this, in mock-heroic fashion, in some London court. Macleod of Dare It failed in its principal purpose of reconciliation, but it has given us the best mock-heroic poem in the language. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The description of his method of reading is admirable, and the amazing stump-campaign in America attains, in Mr. Marzials’ hands, to the dignity of a mock-heroic poem. Reviews Hence in our England's East his hand Turned, in a story sternly grand, A motley mock-heroic page. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 An interview in the mock-heroic style between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief was received with immense applause, which came loudest of all from the loyalists of the colony. Twice Told Tales Because of his simplicity, absence of fussiness, avoidance of the mock-heroic, of the inflated "grand manner," critics have pressed too heavily upon this same simplicity. Promenades of an Impressionist Anster Fair, a mock-heroic poem, in ottava rima, full of fancy and humour, which at once brought him reputation. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature But in pure comedy, mixed with farce and mock-heroic parody, he belongs to the school of "rare Ben." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 And they must have felt instinctively what only a laborious erudition reveals to us, the sudden subtle modulations of the colloquial comic verse into mock-heroic travesty of high tragedy or lyric. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 He wore it with an air that was a strange mixture of the mock-heroic and the pathetic. California Sketches, Second Series For the first time we heard "Elijah" represented by a great artist, and not by a sentimental, mock-heroic singer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Batrachomyomachia, a mock-heroic poem, "The Battle of the Frogs and Mice," falsely ascribed to Homer. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge In this kind of mock-heroic, he is without a rival in our language, for Dryden has written nothing of the kind. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. But there was this pointed difference, that Butler's poem is burlesque, and Dryden's mock-heroic. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author In "MacFlecknoe," the mock-heroic is sustained with unparalleled vigour from the first line to the last. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes The description of Mokanna in the fight, though it has spirit and grandeur of effect, has still a great alloy of the mock-heroic in it. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits The whole scene is a masterpiece of the mock-heroic. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Pope made a mock-heroic poem on the subject, in which he satirized the fads and fashions of Queen Anne's age. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived However this may be, they were mock-heroic compositions in which the subjects consecrated by tragic usage were travestied or burlesqued. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius On comparing a few passages with the original, I perceive that he fails alike in representing the dignity of Cervantes in the mock-heroic, and the familiarity of his lighter manner. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Of these the description of a lady's footman's daily life, from within, has a good deal of sprightliness, and displays quite a little mastery of the mock-heroic couplet. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia In commenting on their failure, an Athenaeum critic has explained the pre-established fitness of the ottava rima—the first six lines of which are a dance, and the concluding couplet a "breakdown"—for the mock-heroic. Byron Yet with all his mock-heroic notoriety, the toller Pückler was by no means destitute of those practical qualities which tempered the Teutonic Romanticism, even in its earliest and most extravagant developments. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Chauvelin was not the man for such a mock-heroic, melodramatic situation. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel So Pope took up his pen and wrote a mock-heroic poem making friendly fun of the whole matter. English Literature for Boys and Girls Numerous incidents of the mock-heroic style, if analysed, would reveal the same elements. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic They used to be written on trifling or obscene subjects in a mock-heroic style. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini With mock-heroic air, she raised her white arm, and motioned away those who were immediately around her person. Prince Eugene and His Times "England, home and beauty!" said Vetch, with a mock-heroic air, strangely out of tune with the subject under discussion. For the Term of His Natural Life The voice and mock-heroic attitude of the speaker was enough to relieve the general embarrassment with a laugh. The Twins of Table Mountain It has given birth to the mock-heroic poem, a rather old-fashioned device, I admit, though traces of it are still to be found in persons inclined to exaggerate methodically. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Put into everyday English the whole scheme sounded visionary and mock-heroic. A Poor Wise Man Look out for your digestion, and only look," he added, with a mock-heroic gesture, "at the majestic, thrice holy, and edifying appearance of this amiable capitalist's dining-room. The Magic Skin It might often be said of braggadocio that it is its mock-heroic aspect which makes us laugh. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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