Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2] Reference
With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The word of the yesterday, according to my beloved AWAD, is anacreontic, and it means “celebrating love and drinking.”. From Wordnik.com. [The downside of success] Reference
Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
The others are all well-known anacreontic meetings held in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
"Anacreon," from his translation of that Greek poet, and his own original anacreontic songs. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
With his companion, renju, her mood is anacreontic, restored the temperament DiaoMan capricious. From Wordnik.com. [VInvesting.com] Reference
Captain Morris, and Colonel George Hanger, formed the most conspicuous characters at the princely anacreontic board. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
The only poem of his that still lives is the beautiful little anacreontic beginning “Busy, curious, thirsty Fly.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
At fifteen, Alexandre le Jeune wrote anacreontic verses, and (less excusably) a commentary on the Institutions of Gaius. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures Among Books] Reference
Toast, sentiment, and anacreontic song, succeeded each other at speedy intervals; but there was no speechifying -- no politics. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
He is the most fluent, imaginative poet of the eighteenth century and is especially successful in the pastoral and anacreontic styles. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference
I went away bowing to his wife, but I saw plainly after that scene that my anacreontic salutation did not produce much effect upon her. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2] Reference
I began by reading aloud an anacreontic, adding to its beauties by the modulation of my voice, and keenly enjoying her pleasure at finding her work so fair. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
His triumph was, as he said it ought to be, bacchanalian: he laughed and sang with anacreontic spirit, and finished by declaring that he deserved to be crowned with vine-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
Chaulieu (1639-1720), the "poëte de la bonne compagnie," an anacreontic senior, patriarch of pleasure, survived the classical century, and sang his songs of facile, epicurean delights; his friend. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
I was delighted that my scheme of wounding her vanity had succeeded, and I began by reading aloud an anacreontic, adding to its beauties by the modulation of my voice, and keenly enjoying her pleasure at finding her work so fair. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
German feeling in the first half of the eighteenth century was chiefly influenced, on the one hand, by Richardson's novels, which left no room for Nature, and by the poetry of Young and Thomson; on the other, by the pastoral idylls interspersed with anacreontic love-passages, affected by the French. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times] Reference
Here is an anacreontic -- written "for my brother Leslie. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
A cavalier song-writer, who too frequently wrote mere doggerel; but on the other hand, he sometimes did not, and when he escaped the evil influence, as in the stanzas "Come, come, let us drink," "The Trooper," and not a few others, he has the right anacreontic vein. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
11: 09 a.m. The word of the yesterday, according to my beloved AWAD, is anacreontic, and it means “celebrating love and drinking.”. From Wordnik.com. [The downside of success] Reference
Your fine anacreontic glee. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
29. anacreontic. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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