An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. From LearnThat.org. [Minna Thomas Antrim.]
Noun : Oscar Wilde had a genius for epigram. From Dictionary.com.
The Latin epigram says, Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte tu lisset, AEternae vitae janua clausa foret. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Latin epigrammatist who left a large mass of work, gave a meaning to the word epigram from which it is only now beginning to recover. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
The rhetorical flourish of a Latin epigram also has served to indicate that the notion of proof is well understood, and commonly agreed. From Wordnik.com. [Proof] Reference
The epigram are a number of the sentences turned into verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Pisano with a very beautiful epigram, which is in print with the others. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna] Reference
The epigram is a quite definite form of art, especially cultivated by the poets in the first half of the seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
This epigram is also found in the Anthology. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
The poem that follows is an "epigram", a short verse that makes a pointed remark, often by wittily juxtaposing contrasting ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
"There are no longer any Pyrenees," was Louis's exultant epigram, meaning of course that France and Spain were now practically one. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Bourne (Vincent), epigram from the Latin of, 253. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
So long as he had a grave with frills and a tombstone "epigram". From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference
But it is generally possible to discover the original and pivotal epigram which is the centre and purpose of the play. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference
Landskips, "and then he quotes, as a sample of Herrick, a tiresome" epigram, "in the poet's worst style. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
There is no better epigram for last week's events. From Wordnik.com. [Race: Our Dilemma Still] Reference
He addressed an epigram to Bembo, with whose passion for. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Sir Robert in his whole life never constructed an epigram. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
One of the neatest wishes of this kind is in a Greek epigram. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
But our readers, we think, will consent to spare the epigram. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
This epigram was posted on the building, in angry Slavonic. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
His bitter and equivocal smile put you in mind of the grinding of an epigram-mill. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
While this act was passing the House, the following epigram appeared in the public papers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Here he received, as probably he deserved, that celebrated compliment in epigram, from Louis XIV. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Martin Luther King Jr. is enlisted as author of an epigram about taking a staircase one step at a time. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding 'The Secret'] Reference
Macdonald could thrill a crowd with a homely epigram and turn his hand to a vastly national piece of work. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
If, fresh from Shelley or Tennyson, he came across the epigram of Simonides on the Spartan dead at Thermopylae. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
But how true is Rochefoucauld's cynical epigram -- "Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'Autrui!". From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
He still used his epigram and was still reminded of "a little story," when he wished to point a moral or adorn a tale. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Although, as a rule, Thackeray preferred social to political satire, he would sometimes point an epigram with sharp effect. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
As the title of this epigram also suggests, window panes were not the only surfaces considered appropriate for such writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1] Reference
The contrast with the usual English manner may be illustrated by quoting a famous epigram -- Ben Jonson's epitaph on a boy actor. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The epigram quoted a few pages back shows how the Greek writer lets his subject speak instead of expressing his own feelings about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
His senior-year epigram, inscribed next to his picture in the yearbook, read: "The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.". From Wordnik.com. [Grin and Bear It] Reference
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