A Canadian drama hardly exists; among its best works are the pleasantly epigrammatic plays of F.
But he will certainly survive, at least in extract, as a distinguished humorist, an expert in epigrammatic and sententious aphorism, an artist of extremely finished execution.
Footnote 873: Cornelius Helvius Cinna was anepigrammatic poet, of the same age as Catullus.
The poems of Martial consist of fourteen books, all written in the epigrammatic form, to which species of composition, introduced by the Greeks, he had a peculiar propensity.
Coleridge's quatrain on Donne is, without doubt, an unequalled masterpiece ofepigrammatic criticism.
It has none of Pope's wit, none of his epigrammatic characterization, none of his bewigged and powdered fancies, none of his malicious self-revelation.
These causes came into full operation during the Alexandrian era, in which we find every description of epigrammatic composition perfectly developed.
The fourth or Byzantine style of epigrammatic composition was cultivated by the beaux-esprits of the court of Justinian.
The humbler strains of the epigrammatic muse, on the other hand, remained ever fresh and animated, ever in intimate union with the spirit of the generation that gave them birth.
It was thus that Lucretius was enabled to embody in Roman verse the whole Epicurean system, and Catullus to imitate or translate the lighter amatory and epigrammatic compositions of the Greeks.
In his epigrammatic compositions, Catullus was imitated by several of his own contemporaries, most of whom also ranked in the number of his friends.
This looks sweeping, but on reference to hisepigrammatic epitaphs, one finds that he admires the Old "Gang" and deplores the New.
That roughness is, like the abruptepigrammatic manner of some of his early works, the necessary condition in which such material realizes mature expression.
But Beethoven was not content to express his individuality only in an abrupt epigrammatic style.
It aids its quickness and directness of mental view, in giving to his style a pointed epigrammatic terseness which is quite its own, and a frequent weight and effect which no other equals.
Some phrases, here again, are precisely Shakspeare's; and several parts of the dialogue have much of his pointed epigrammatic style.
The plot is fascinating, the incidents exciting, and the dialogueepigrammatic and brilliant.
It is perfect in its way, in style clear, sharp and forcible, the dialogue epigrammatic and sparkling.
He was tooepigrammatic for her, and beneath the brilliancy of his epigram she felt at times the presence of something dark and nauseous.
The arrogance of those who have all that they desire is insupportable," the Frenchman went on in his favorite, non-committing, epigrammatic way.
It is odd that the nation that has given us so much epigrammatic slang and the telegraph and the telephone and the typewriter should have so little of what might be called intellectual short-hand.
Just as all French people are wits by reason of the epigrammatic structure of their language, so are all Americans humourists by reason of the national stores of picturesque slang and analogy to which they have access.
Pope's verse and that of his age generally is too cleverly artificial to be of much use to a modern, though his mastery of the epigrammatic couplet might be profitably noted.
This fourteen lines, as an examination will discover, might be written in three four-line stanzas with an additional two lines as an epigrammatic envoy.
Johnson says in his epigrammatic way, "there is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
But the epigrammatic form is remarkable, and it is a characteristic passage of the fourth Gospel.
The fact is, however, that the epigrammatic form only exists when the phrase is quoted without its context.
In the entire history of epigrammatic expression there are few if any whose fame rests solely upon the brittle structure of the bon mot.
In private life he was not oppressively epigrammatic or logical, and not at all ruthless; and everybody called him "Billy," which in itself did much to deprive him of his terrors.
Then, again, the pungent brevity of such of the poetry of the Anthology as isepigrammatic is highly attractive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epigrammatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
