Similarly the fifth satire, where Persius descants on the theme that only the good man is free, while all the rest are slaves, compares ill as a whole with the dialogue between Horace and Davus on the same subject (Sat.
The first is entitled de qualitate temporis and descants on the ultimate destruction of the world by fire--a well-known Stoical doctrine.
With indignant eloquence he descants on the evils which have befallen the church since first the hem of the priestly robe swept the marble of the imperial palace.
His chapter on Solitude, wherein he descants on the delights of rural scenery and gardens; and his conclusion, directing every man towards the attainment of his own felicity, are worth perusing.
Pity, thus imprisoned, descants in a kind of lyric measure on the profligacy of the age, and in this situation is found by Perseverance and Contemplacion, who set him at liberty, and advise him to go in search of the delinquents.
In this poem Buchanan descants on the absurdity of the Pythagorean system which supposes the motion of the earth.
But no one is shocked at the exultation of a gardener, amateur or professional, when in the fulness of his heart he descants upon the unrivalled beauty of his favorite flowers: 'Plants of his hand, and children of his care.
And nightingales among those branches wing Their flight, and safely amorous descants sing.
When he descantsupon politics, he rarely goes beyond the truth: "Ability advance a man in the Government bureaus!
One of the quaint poems of the gentle priest descants upon the bad behavior of people at church.
These descants on our griefs only perplex; Let's seek the remedy.
Let descants cease, Who serves, though she observes, must hold her peace.
And thus have I made my Descants on this supposed Miracle before us and argued, as much as I could, against the Miraculousness of it, both from the Nature of the Disease, and the Manner of the Cure of it.
I should be pleas'd, if no Infidel really could, what I, but for the sake of the Mystery most unwillingly should, write any ludicrous Descants on it.
Just so may Infidels, with their Descants on this Miracle before us, reduce and lessen it: And what must we Believers do then?
Being on Board he descants on his ensuing misery; yet draws comfort to himself from the sufferings of others.
He descants on his Marrying, and lying with an Indian-Black: Gives wholsome Advice to others; and concludes for this time.
He descantson the joys of the simple life in a well-known ode.
Pity then descants in a kind of lyric measure on the profligacy of the age, and in this situation is found by Perseverance and Contemplation, who set him at liberty, and advise him to go in search of the delinquents.
Marco at Venice; a composition whose terrific graces Vasari descants on with a fervour inferior only to the artist's own inspiration, though he unaccountably ascribes it to the elder Palma.
Punch descants rhetorically for nearly one hundred lines on Smugby's Sabbath, fanaticism, Pharisaism, etc.
Pointing out his slaves, he descants on them; and goes on to explain how much trouble he had to get them; he could not value them for less than P80 apiece.
Picking them up one by one the owner descants on their beauty, their value (naming an outrageous sum), and his relatives express their sorrow at parting with them.
The beginning of the invocation is ordinarily in a laudatory strain; he reminds his divinities of his past offerings, descants on the size of the victims offered on previous occasions, and the general expenses of past sacrifices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
