His last letter is a kind of dithyramb about "Lohengrin," which naturally predisposes me favourably towards the man. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]
Suppose you sang your dithyramb, and by chance some piece of bad luck did happen. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Simonides wrote a dithyramb on Memnon and Tithonus; Pindar, on Orion and on Heracles. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
They are the chorus round his altar; if he raised his arm they would sing a dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Dionysos 'connection with music is less specific than Apollo's, but still he is ranked as inventor of the dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART] Reference
But half a year before, I had promised the Keans that I would make them a dithyramb for the Delia, and I could not fail them. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Mysians as a dithyramb in the Dorian mode, found it impossible, and fell back by the very nature of things into the more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
When, on the day he would have sung his dithyramb, we had an untimely hailstorm, I said that Onomakritos did seem to have smelled out an unfavorable day. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Lasos had lost nothing much through Onomakritos — in the end his dithyramb had been put on another day — his place at court and his stipend had never been threatened. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The husband who commences with dithyramb is a fool. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1] Reference
Bringing together into a dithyramb of recreative song. From Wordnik.com. [Spoon River Anthology] Reference
Rhetoric and dithyramb were gone from his speech and habit of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fleece] Reference
Still, it was a mass frenzy, a carefully packaged dithyramb ... it was, in short. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference
In truth, her new capacity for dithyramb was no less surprising to herself than to Delaine. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Merton, Colonist] Reference
Alcibiades took one of the largest double-goblets, veiled it, and improvised the following dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Miniatures] Reference
And even as the dithyramb had been pressed into the service of poetry, so was drinking made rhythmic by music. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
Choral meeting solo, and overture meeting antiphon, and strophe joining dithyramb, as they roll into the ocean of doxologies. From Wordnik.com. [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference
At dinner he was in his toilet what Mr Henry James calls the “member of society,” never the poet whose necktie is a dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning]
Ah! the vine leaves and the tiger skins and the ivory bodies, the clash of the cymbals and the dithyramb shrilling up to the stars!. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
The manner in which Rietz's composition to the Schiller dithyramb is to be interwoven with the poem I cannot venture fully to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
Reverend Strong’s dithyramb swept toward a crescendo of race-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
India "for last words even to this centennial dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
114“Reverend Strong’s dithyramb”: Strong, Our Country, pp. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
It was born of the dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
Burgundy the pindaric dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Adores in his dithyramb perfect, unending. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
What means, then, this dithyramb upon property?. From Wordnik.com. [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference
The dithyramb. From Wordnik.com. [Not PC] Reference
"dithyramb," first mentioned by Archilochus (c. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
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