The Poet's Choice On a celebrated Ruling Elder On John Dove On Andrew Turner On a Scotch Coxcomb On Grizzel Grim On a Wag in Mauchline Epitaph on W--- On a Suicide Epigrams from the German of Lessing.
It is probable that most of his epigrams and verified repartees have either not been preserved, or have escaped our search.
On a Usurer To Mrs. Biddy Floyd The Reverse The Place of the Damned The Day of Judgment Paulus the Lawyer Lindsay Epigrams by Thomas Sheridan.
From Eton he went to Cambridge, where he won an unprecedented number of prizes for poems and epigramsin Greek, Latin, and English.
On the Art Unions The Superiority of Machinery Epigrams by W.
On Observing a Vulgar Name on the Plinth of a Statue Lying in State Epigrams from Punch.
It is addressed either to Agnes of Navarre, or, as M.
The final account of the murder of Pierre (which he provoked by the most brutal oppression of his vassals) is full of power.
Piron's temper was an idle one, and he did little solid work in literature, except his epigrams and one comedy, La Metromanie.
The epigrams are frequently pointed, and well expressed, and the complimentary verse is often skilful and well turned.
Like his forerunner, he divided his time between bombastic lyrics and epigrams of very considerable merit.
His animus is never allowed to transpire in any direct tirades; his irony emerges rather in reporting epigrams of others than in personal sarcasms or innuendoes; his own prepossessions and opinions are carefully veiled.
He showed Monsignor Cesi that he had a poor opinion of his literary judgment, came into collision with the pedants who despised Italian, and finally uttered satiric epigrams in writing on various members of the university.
Martial says that his first book of epigrams was sold in plain binding for six sesterces, about twenty-four cents of American money; the same book in sumptuous binding was valued at five denarii, about eighty cents.
Martial, the jovial man of the world, boasted that his books of stingingepigrams were to be found in everybody's hands or pockets.
Thoreau in one of his critical epigrams declared it was not important that a poet should say any particular thing, but that he should speak in harmony with nature; that "the tone of his voice is the main thing.
His talent is to formulate rules of poetry, to satirize fashionable society, to make brilliant epigrams in faultless couplets.
He interlarded his speech with epigramsfrom popular pieces, pronouncing them with the emphasis given by famous actors.
More than once she made epigrams to peers or deputies which the courts of Europe treasured.
Yet this clue does not carry us far in determining the principle, if indeed there was any principle, on which either the short lyrical poems or the elegiac epigramswere arranged.
The first attempts to introduce the erotic poetry of Alexandria, in the form of epigrams and short lyrical poems, also belong to this period.
Many of the epigrams refer to the persons who are the subject of the short lyric and iambic pieces.
The satires and epigrams which the Maimunists and anti-Maimunists hurled against each other were the last products of the neo-Hebraic muse of Spain.
They were no longer like the epigrams of the flourishing era of poetry, which resembled prattling maidens, but were like quarrelsome scolds who had lost the charm of youth.
He also composed epigrams and songs of praise, but his poetic compositions, both secular and spiritual, are heavy and dull, full of thought, but devoid of beauty of form.
His speeches were made up of epigrams which were quotable and effective.
It prefers epigrams to arguments and humor to rhetoric.
Epigrams were written in favour of Luther as early as 1521 (p.
It is merely a selection of epigrams from the Anthologia of H.
The epigrams of Henry Stephens are remarkably prosaic and heavy.
Among the epigrams of Passerat I have found one which Amaltheus seems to have shortened and improved, retaining the idea, in his famous lines on Acon and Leonilla.
Then a sudden inspiration came upon him, and he declared that he clearly perceived how epigrams should be prepared.
It was in the midst of a fire of epigrams in prose and verse that the author of the Marriage of Figaro pursued his career, pouring out on his enemies not torrents of fire and light, but torrents of liveliness and fun.
They’re bitter Epigrams compos’d on you By Horace.
His sayings have the sparkle of genius and personality; the illustrations and epigrams which he threw off in fertile profusion are still clinchers; even his humor plays around them.
His epigramsand hyperboles crack like a whip-lash.
He drew up a series of epigrams under the head of "Ideen" and thought so well of them that he sent them home, to astonish and alarm his mother.
His head was full of things he had read, of plots, of great characters, even of epigrams and biting iconoclasms.
Epigrams have almost sponged away one of the immemorial deeps of the soul.
The only other contemporary evidence which affords a glimpse of Juvenal's actual life is contained in three epigrams of Martial.
The collectors, critics, librarians of Alexandria could only produce literary imitations of the epic and the hymn, or could at best write epigrams or inscriptions for the statue of some alien and luxurious god.
Idylls and Epigrams chiefly from the Greek Anthology.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, edited with translations and notes.
His Hymn's--and--Epigrams Translated according to ye Originall.
Another of your latest Querists may find the epigrams on George II.
Political questions were no longer convenient pegs to hang pessimistic epigrams on, but became matters of vital interest because they affected the moral condition of the country in which the baby was to grow up.
That was what they called Pensées--moral and philosophical reflections in the form of epigrams or rather aphorisms.
They all have passages and epigrams of curious brilliancy and trenchant observation; they have wit, fancy, and life scattered up and down their pages.
All the bookworms of Alexandria composed elegies and epigrams on this apparition of the Muses, and the good Hyacinths had to inscribe these verses carefully in golden tablets, and carry them after her.
Syme has preserved a record of this journey, and the main impression left by the perusal of it is the strange access of ill-temper which had come over Burns, who kept venting his spleen in epigrams on all whom he disliked, high and low.
He lamented that he had written many epigrams on persons against (p.
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