It may not, however, be without interest to some of your readers to know, that this elegant "Alcaic" was to be found at the Chartreuse not very long before the outbreak of that great political tempest, proof of which will be found in the following extract taken from the 9th volume of Malte-Brun's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851] Reference

Of these, four are in hendecasyllabics, one in the Alcaic and one in the Sapphic stanza.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

If we translate an Alcaic and a Sapphic Ode into the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

For the place of the Alcaic there are various candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

The Sapphic and the Alcaic involve more difficult questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

Alcaic fragment which he has inserted in his "Amours de Voyage".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

Sappho invented the Sapphic, or Alcæus the Alcaic: each poet may have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

The external correspondence between this and the Alcaic is considerable; but the brevity of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave that falls over in the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam] Reference

Alcaic measure at this date, 62 B. C., it being generally believed that the Greek measures were first adapted to the Latin tongue by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

Alcaic, was doubtless suggested by it, that which appears in his poem of "The Daisy," and, in a slightly different form, in the "Lines to Mr. Maurice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

An Alcaic!, after having been imprifoned and condemded to death, offered to give him his riches, which were very confiderable, would he only grant him his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The present state of the empire of Morocco. Its animals, products, climate, soil, cities, ports, provinces, coins, weights, and measures. With the language, religion, laws, manners, customs, and character, of the Moors; the history of the dynasties since Edris; the naval force and commerce of Morocco; and the character, conduct, and views, political and commercial, of the reigning emperor] Reference

Statius, whose hendecasyllables are passable enough, has given us one Alcaic and one Sapphic ode, which recall the bald and constrained efforts of a modern schoolboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace] Reference

What he knew about comic tetrameter was at my service, and in a short time I knew, as I imagined, almost all that he did about Minor Ionic, Sapphic, and Alcaic verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]

The two last lines of the latter form of the stanza are indeed evidently copied from the Alcaic, with the simple omission of the last syllable of the last line of the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

On his way between Turin and Lyons, he turned aside to see again the noble mountainous scenery surrounding the Grande Chartreuse in Dauphiné; and in the album kept by the fathers wrote his Alcaic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

He committed, however, to the press, translations of some of Gay's Fables, which had been made into Latin, chiefly with a view to the improvement of his children; an Alcaic Ode to Doctor Jenner, on the discovery of the Cowpock; and several short poems in his own language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets]

I think it very probable that this will be found eventually to be the best representation of the Alcaic in English, especially as it appears to afford facilities for that linking of stanza to stanza which one who wishes to adhere closely to the logical and rhythmical structure of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

It may be true that Horace himself does not invariably suit his metre to his subject; the solemn Alcaic is used for a poem in dispraise of serious thought and praise of wine; the Asclepiad stanza in which Quintilius is lamented is employed to describe the loves of Maecenas and Licymnia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

It would seem, however, that when Professor Conington insisted that an English measure once adopted for the Alcaic must be used for every ode in which Horace employed the stanza just named, he went far toward hampering the translator, who, despite his proneness to offend, has his rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Translating the Odes of Horace] Reference

Rhyme became by degrees an invariable or almost invariable accompaniment, and while quantity, strictly speaking, almost disappeared (some will have it that it quite disappeared from French), a syllabic uniformity more rigid than any which had prevailed, except in the case of lyric measures like the Alcaic, became the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

  Drop down and give me ten Alcaic stanzas — NOW! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Session With My Poetry Coach] Reference

= A Collection of Exercises in the Alcaic and Sapphic Metres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

(p. lxiv) and Alcaic (p. lxix) strophes have already been described.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference

GRAY, 'Alcaic Fragment'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference

And take the Alcaic lute.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

Gray's Alcaic ode, 382. 416.    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

B. (G.) on Gray's Alcaic ode, 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Gray's Alcaic stanza on West's death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

(168) It was on revisiting it, when returning to England after his unfortunate quarrel with Walpole, that Gray inscribed his beautiful "Alcaic Ode" in the album of the fathers of this monastery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

Gray's Alcaic Ode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850] Reference

The Sapphic and Alcaic poems (iv. 5 and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Walk, Hampstead -- Gray's Alcaic Ode -- Fleet Marriages 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851] Reference

Palmerston -- Gray's Alcaic Ode -- Abbey of St. Wandrille -- London Dissenting Ministers -- Dutch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850] Reference

They published whole libraries, controversy, casuistry, history, treatises on optics, Alcaic odes, editions of the fathers, madrigals, catechisms, and lampoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference