The funeral attendees were touched by the beautiful elegy that Laura read as part of her grandmother's eulogy. From LearnThat.org.
The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe. From Wordnik.com. [The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.] Reference
1794.14 - "The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.". From Wordnik.com. [The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.] Reference
The form of the elegy is a dialogue betwixt a passenger and a domestic servant. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815/1794.14 "The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe." ". From Wordnik.com. [The annex'd elegy is on a gravestone in the churchyard at Hythe.] Reference
33, 34. the king lamented over Abner -- This brief elegy is an effusion of indignation as much as of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
As in elegy, so in epideictic. From Wordnik.com. ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference
And yet it's also a kind of elegy to even bigger movements that once peppered the. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Analog is a kind of elegy for the pre-digital era of sound and photographic production and. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
A eulogy can be contrasted with an "elegy", which is a poem written in tribute to the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Estate Law Blog] Reference
She read and translated two of them; one, a kind of elegy on Sir John M'Lean's being obliged to fly his country in. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
In 1492 Lorenzo passed away and Poliliziano wrote an elegy which is to this day regarded as unique in modern Latin verse. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
Skallagrimsson's elegy on the death of his two sons. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Mr. SCHIFRIN: I'm writing elegy to the memory of Joseph Haydn. From Wordnik.com. [Lalo Schifrin, from 'Mission Impossible' to Jazz] Reference
After his death, Ovid wrote him a fine elegy (p. 115); and Domitius. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
It's not meant to be an elegy memorializing Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberson's 'Songs Of Love And Sorrow' And New Life] Reference
A few years ago, before Adair was sick, Ryan wrote what now reads as an elegy. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Poet Laureate] Reference
It would not be possible to write satire, epic, idyl, not even elegy, upon that. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
English consul, Mr Bretton, upon whose death he afterwards wrote a Latin elegy. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The ode and elegy have most in common, although the latter is a tribute to the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
There are elements of elegy: Francis's pub is full when so many around the nation are empty. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Spring by Richard Francis] Reference
Once Wordsworth asked a friend what he thought was the greatest elegy of the English language. From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
It was not any congenital dulness or want of sense that made the Sagas generally averse to elegy. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
You can read the full text of his elegy to his younger brother on our Web site, freshair. npr.org. From Wordnik.com. [Poet Robert Hass: An Elegy For His Younger Brother] Reference
When Keats died at 26, Percy Bysshe Shelley modeled his elegy for the poet on Milton's masterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
His elegy on Beaumont was printed at the end of the quarto edition of Beaumont's poems -- put out with. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Ercole Strozzi sought to console her in pompous verse; in 1508 he dedicated to her his elegy on Cæsar. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
In the background there is the crying game that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Apparently he was also the author of the elegy on the death of the Duke of Gandia, which is still preserved. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
It was at once an elegy of Mrs. Nisbett, and a prayer and prophecy that she might again be seen on the boards. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The elegy in its measures partakes of the solemnity of the grave, the ode is hampered by no such restrictions. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The beautiful elegy which he states Collenuccio wrote shortly before his death was written at a much happier time. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Had the poem been a conventional elegy for a dead acquaintance, however, it would probably not be of much interest. From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
BLOOM AND DOOMHarold Bloom writes in "The Western Canon" that he hopes his book "does not turn out to be an elegy.". From Wordnik.com. [It's Naughty! Haughty! It's Anti-Multi-Culti!] Reference
Think of Jarrold's briskly paced, stylish abridgment as a fine introduction to Waugh's marvelously melancholy elegy. From Wordnik.com. [You Can Go Home Again] Reference
The prelude which opens the opera instead of an overture, is in particular an elegy of a noble and interesting kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Milton's elegy, as Harold Bloom noted, "sets the pattern in which all those that come after are elegies for the self.". From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
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