单词 | Pindaric |
例句 | But it was Johnson who brought the house down with his bombastic recital - in ancient Greek - of a Pindaric Ode for the London Games. Mayor steals show at opera house Olympic ceremony 2012-07-23T23:32:11Z His Anacreontic odes, dithyrambs and idylls earned the admiration of contemporaries, but his Pindaric odes lack fire, his sonnets are weak, and his idylls have neither the truth nor the simplicity of Quita’s work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Yet all her projects and administrative measures revolved within a circle of romantic raptures and Pindaric ecstasies. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z They are genuinely Pindaric, that is, with corresponding strophes, antistrophes and epodes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The peculiar variation in length of line found in the Pindaric ode belongs almost entirely to lyric poetry. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z In this Pindaric, which is entitled Threnodia Augustalis, the poet seems to hint, as delicately as the occasion would permit, at the limited extent of his pecuniary obligations to the deceased monarch. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Cowley is best where he is nearest Herrick, and his posy of short lyrics outlives his “epic and Pindaric art.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The last two are somewhat Pindaric in style, but also suggest the influence of the Italian canzone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes In the Pindaric ode, on the contrary, where the foot is more regular, there are great variations in the length of line. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z It is a commonplace that the Pindaric Ode in English is an artificial exotic, of slight native force, and unable to reproduce the effects of the Greek original. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The Archbishop of Palermo, in his Pindaric eulogy of the Spiritual Guide, says that this admirable book is most especially suitable to the direction of nuns. Priests, Women, and Families It may be questioned whether, fine as The Revolt of Islam is, the Spenserian stanza was quite so well suited as the "Pindaric" or as blank verse, or as lyrical measures, to Shelley's genius. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I once read to a company of sensible and well-educated women the introductory period of Cowley’s preface to his Pindaric Odes, written in imitation of the style and manner of the odes of Pindar. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century A Greek poet, chiefly lyric, recalling Pindaric days, has sprung up lately in Athens. 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century Meantime the irregular form, devised by Cowley, had become popular; and against the license of this Congreve protested in his Discourse on the Pindaric Ode, prefixed to his Ode of 1706. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Mr. William H. Greenfield, the honored founder of the United, claims the first page with a graceful Pindaric ode, "To My Friend". Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Swift began his literary career by writing Pindaric odes, one of which led Dryden to say, and the prediction was amply verified, 'Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744) They are Greek, they are Pindaric, they are sublime, consequently I fear a little obscure; the second particularly, by the confinement of the measure and the nature of prophetic vision, is mysterious. Select Poems of Thomas Gray It did not take, and was quite right in not taking, to the rhymeless, shortened Pindaric of Sayers and Southey, as to anything but an eccentric 'sport' of poetry. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series Gray's Progress of Poesy is probably to be regarded as the chief of all English odes of the regular Pindaric form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The fire of the poet, the reach of imagination, was reserved for the chorus, which frequently exhibited the most sublime specimens of lyric poetry, rivalling the loftiest strains of the Pindaric muse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Pindarics were indeed the bane of the age. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) A mythical narrative, connected in some way with the victor or his city, usually occupies the central part of the Pindaric ode. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" It may be worth noting, however, that none of his recorded comments on Pindaric verse antedate the publication of this ode. A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. Cowley, as has already appeared, introduced the irregular ode into English poetry, calling it "Pindaric" under a misapprehension of the real structure of the Greek odes. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There is Schultze, who "looks as if he had fasted six months on Greek prosody and the Pindaric meters." Stories of Authors, British and American In the Victorian age, the ode, in its full Pindaric sense, has not been very frequently used. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature And the Pindaric heroes laugh in scorn With the white goddesses of marble wrought By Scopas' hand; laugh, and their laughter-peals Are echoed loud and deep from far away! Life Immovable First Part Conceivably he himself was unaware of his hostility until, more than ten years later, he was forced to criticise the poets who made the English Pindaric popular. A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. This ode was evidently intended to be in the regular Pindaric form, and was divided into strophes, antistrophes, and epodes; but it soon broke into irregularity. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Many of these complex stanzaic forms, moreover, belong in the tradition of the so-called Pindaric ode, imitated freely from the Greek choric odes of Pindar. The Principles of English Versification The Pindaric in which she thanks him, and which was printed March, 1689, proved the last poem she herself saw through the press. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I The second is part of that Ode to the Immortal Memory of that Heroic Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morrison, which is the first true Pindaric in the language. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys You see he himself is an eccentric accountant, a Pindaric book-keeper, an arithmetician in the clouds. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) But there is that great deference due to the memory, great parts, and learning, of that gentleman, that I think nothing should be objected to the latitude he has taken in his Pindaric odes. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The closer imitations are in fixed though complex stanzas regularly repeated, and are called Regular Pindarics. The Principles of English Versification Besides a Pindaric Ode to Shakespeare, to be found in my Miscellaneous Poems, wherein many of his characters are touched upon, I wrote the following sonnet, now out of print:— The Stratford Jubilee. My Life as an Author There is indeed a big Pindaric sort of poetry about a plunging mass of cattle. The River and I He has been very good-natured to me, and it isn't his fault if I'm not Poet Laureate at this writing, and engaged in cursing the Czar in Pindarics very prettily. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II I dare say, our whole lives will be Pindaric: my only plan of life is to have none at all, which, I think, my little Bell will approve. The History of Emily Montague Gray's Pindaric Odes are, I believe, generally given up at present: they are stately and pedantic, a kind of methodical borrowed phrenzy. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution He is an excellent Poet, as appears from his elegant Pindaric odes. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works What I have attempted in them is mostly of the Pindaric and the Lyric Way. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) What is Titius about, who shortly will be celebrated by every Roman tongue; who dreaded not to drink of the Pindaric spring, daring to disdain common waters and open streams: how does he do? The Works of Horace The Pindaric odes exhibit a treatment that is Romantic, and the Norse and Welsh adaptations are on subjects that are Romantic. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature The Greeks, on the contrary, laid their infant heroes on beds of violets,—if we may believe the Pindaric odes,—set over them a divine watch, and fed them with angels' food. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 At intervals, however, Arnold was nobly lyrical, and strangely, too, at times, in those same uneven measures in which are found his most signal failures—the unrhymed Pindaric. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems You may expect the rest on the Pindaric Style. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) "CYNTHIA," said the Queen, beckoning with her rosy fingers to another maiden, "will you recite to me your Pindaric Ode on the late foot-race?" Punch Among the Planets He was the author of a considerable number of poems, including a Hymn to Darkness, Pindaric Odes, and translations from the classics. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature There is something Homeric, Pindaric in these epithets. Sacred Books of the East The poets who wrote Pindaric verse in his praise complained that their flights of sublimity were beyond his comprehension. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Hail English Swan? for You alone could dare With well-pois'd Pinions tempt th' unbounded Air: And to your Lute Pindaric Numbers call, Nor fear the Danger of a threatned Fall. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) "Voluntaries," published in the same year in the "Atlantic Monthly," is more dithyrambic in its measure and of a more Pindaric elevation than the plain song of the "Boston Hymn." Ralph Waldo Emerson This Pindaric gown was a sudden thought to surprise the Duke, with whom she had dined in another dress. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) In this species of composition he succeeded ill; sublimity and fire, the indispensable requisites in a Pindaric Ode not being his talent. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. I hear he has, since his parenthesis, voted again with the Court; therefore he has probably not taken a new part, but only made a Pindaric transition on a particular question. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II Everybody was too much taken up with his own concerns, or too much daunted, to give the least disturbance to the Pindaric. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I Besides the works which we have already mentioned, Mr. Dennis is author of the following pieces, mostly in the Pindaric way. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author When Swift was a young man, and not so well acquainted with the world as he afterwards became, he wrote some Pindaric Odes. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. There is that youngster here; that upstart; he who bolted upon us and mouthed his Pindarics in the Elysian Fields; the surly groom of the chamber. Anna St. Ives Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 The following specimen, which is part of a Paraphrase on the Te Deum, serves to shew, that Mr. Dennis wrote with more elegance in Pindaric odes, than in blank verse. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV It was to this reading backwards that Dean Barnard alludes in his verses— 'The art of pleasing, teach me, Garrick; Thou who reversest odes Pindaric, A second time read o'er.' Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 It has certainly much pomp, and thundering sound of language and versification, but wants the genuine Pindaric inspiration. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes The Dean began his literary career by Pindaric odes to Athenian Societies and the like,—perhaps the greatest mistake as to his own powers of which an author was ever guilty. Among My Books First Series But the great popularity of the so-called "Pindaric" ode in English in the seventeenth century was due to Cowley, and to one of those periodic loyalties to lawlessness which are characteristic of the English. A Study of Poetry The splendor of the most gorgeous butterfly does not endure with the faint hue of the hills that gives Athens its Pindaric name. Literary and Social Essays In the grand style of dithyrambic song, indeed, the bard is rapt into an ideal world, and soars far beyond his subjective emotions or desires; but to this Pindaric inspiration Horace made no pretension. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius More important are the three odes in the 'irregular Pindaric' form introduced by Cowley. A History of English Literature Read Ben Jonson's An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy and, from his Pindaric Ode, the stanza beginning:— "It is not growing like a tree." Halleck's New English Literature The other is entitled Dies Novissima, or the Last Epiphany, a Pindaric Ode on Christ's second Appearance to judge the World. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III Two other well-known poems of this second period are the Pindaric odes, "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard." English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World He attempted Pindaric flights from which the genius of Horace shrank, and apparently he cultivated tragedy, but in a pompous and ranting manner. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius These two poems are the best examples in English of, the true Pindaric Ode as devised by the ancient Greeks. A History of English Literature And yet the odes were in no sense more thoroughly Pindaric than in the circumstance of their flatteries being bought and paid for at a stated market value. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 That poem occasioned another of Mr. Nicholas Rowe's, entitled an Epistle to Flavia, on the sight of two Pindaric Odes on the Spleen and Vanity, written by a Lady to her Friend. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III Nor is there in the Pindaric Odes any violation of classical principles. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century Even in Gray’s—‘Pindaric Gray’s’—treatment of classical themes, there is a sort of pervading ennui, or the forced appreciativeness of a gouty, disappointed man. Proserpine and Midas In form most of them are regular 'Horatian' odes, but 'The Bard' and 'The Progress of Poesy' are the best English examples of the genuine Pindaric ode. A History of English Literature It was garnished, no doubt, with much of what then passed for Pindaric lyric; it was eked out with music. English literary criticism I once read to a company of sensible and well-educated women the introductory period of Cowley's preface to his "Pindaric Odes," written in imitation of the style and manner of the odes of Pindar. Biographia Literaria While we are trying to introduce the lark in this country, why not try this Pindaric grasshopper also? Birds and Poets : with Other Papers In the Preface we are told that the Ode is the most spirited kind of poetry, and that the Pindaric is the most spirited kind of Ode. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Collins' poems show most of the romantic traits and their impetuous emotion often expresses itself in the form of the false Pindaric ode which Cowley had introduced. A History of English Literature The first part of this folio contained early poems; the second part "The Mistress;" the third part "Pindaric Odes;" and the fourth and last his "Davideis." Cowley's Essays Spenser has also given me the boldness to make use sometimes of his Alexandrine line, which we call, though improperly, the Pindaric, because Mr. Cowley has often employed it in his odes. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry It is precisely these rare and Pindaric mixtures which prove the poet's enthusiasm. Notre-Dame De Paris Not long after this Pindaric attempt he published two Epistles to Pope, "Concerning the Authors of the Age," 1730. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 His most conspicuous poems are his so-called 'Pindaric Odes,' in which he supposed that he was imitating the structure of the Greek Pindar but really originated the pseudo-Pindaric Ode, a poem in irregular, non-correspondent stanzas. A History of English Literature Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forget his epic, nay Pindaric art; But still I love the language of his heart. An Essay on Man Cowley, long afterwards, wrote this Pindaric ode, and wrote it coldly. Flower of the Mind Nobody believes in Jason and Medea, and possibly the genealogical records of Maoris and Fijians are as little trustworthy as those of Pindaric Greece. Books and Bookmen Now, by the soul of King Henry," said the Queen, "this is either moonstruck madness or very knavery!—Seest thou, Raleigh, thy friend is far too Pindaric for this presence. Kenilworth When out of twenty I can please not two; When this heroics only deigns to praise, Sharp satire that, and that Pindaric lays? An Essay on Man |
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