Arthurian or of the Carlovingian epopee were adored by this wayward but generous girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
It was a favorite thesis of Fielding, often repeated by his successors, that the novel is a sort of comic epopee. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Henriade will be an epic poem, according to the strictest statute laws of the epopee; but in my court of equity it is one as it is. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee: short spontaneous effusions prepare the way, and furnish materials for the architectonic genius of the poet. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
O roi infortune, 'commencing an epopee on the Incas. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
The popularity of the French epopee extended beyond France. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
The French epopee had its origin in the national songs of the. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
The time chosen for his epopee in prose is the reign of the persecutor. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
There likewiie tragedy will he Jcen to borrow from the epopee; and that which. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
Later to develop than the national epopee was that which formed the cycle of antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
Corneille is Latin, Racine is Greek; the very name of Childebrande suffices to cover an epopee with ridicule. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
But it is in the Princess's own Memoirs that the curious epopee must be read; and to which a dry abridgment does injustice. From Wordnik.com. [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
What we miss in them is exactly what we like best in his epopee -- the vast living picture of semi-barbarous civilization. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
There likewise tragedy will be seen to borrow from the epopee; and that which borrows is always of less dignity, because it has not of its own. From Wordnik.com. [Dedication] Reference
But what if he could have guessed the part he had passively played in obtaining it for its possessor -- or the part that it was still to play in his own epopee?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal's Snuff-Box] Reference
Jamshid is a mythological king of Persian Empire who has been described in great details by Ferdowsi in Shahnameh, the most esteemed epopee of Persian literature. From Wordnik.com. [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference
If the Mystery served to fill the void left by the national epopee, the farce may be regarded as to some extent the dramatic inheritor of the spirit of the fabliau. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
In this view of the subject, every nation, if it would be worth any thing at all, must possess an epopee, to which the precise form of the epic poem is not necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
Without going to Marseilles we can form some idea of it by turning over the leaves of the album in which Sirouy has skillfully reproduced the various subjects of this vast epopee. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Nearer to our own time -- that is, towards the fifth or sixth century of our era, lyric poetry and the drama were, as it were, detached from the epopee and existed on their own merits. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
The comparison, therefore, which I made betwixt the epopee and the tragedy was not altogether a digression; for tis concluded on all hands that they are both the masterpieces of human wit. From Wordnik.com. [Dedication] Reference
The critic is certainly in the right, for the reason already urgd; the work of tragedy is on the passions, and in dialogue; both of them abhor strong metaphors, in which the epopee delights. From Wordnik.com. [Dedication] Reference
I still write an epopee or a tragedy now and then; but what brings me in the most is that industry in which you have already seen me engaged, mastercarrying a pyramid of chairs in my teeth. From Wordnik.com. [I. Gringoire Has Several Bright Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins. Book X] Reference
He beheld the glory and the fall of Napoleon; he witnessed the reaction of down-trodden nationalities -- sublime prologue of the grand epopee of the peoples destined sooner or later to be unfolded. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
It must suffice to reproduce here only the most beautiful and most characteristic passages of this little national epopee, a truly Homeric picture of the quasi-barbarous times and manners of knightly Christendom. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4] Reference
He was drawn to the task partly on account of its difficulty, but chiefly because in Pulci he recognized a kindred spirit who suggested and compelled a fresh and final dedication of his genius to the humorous epopee. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
O roi infortune,’ commencing an epopee on the Incas. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
This poem is the epopee of democratic passions. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
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