EPODE, the third (sixth, ninth) stanza of a Pindaric ode, 131. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The Pindaric in which she thanks him, and which was printed March. From Wordnik.com. [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference
Seest thou, Raleigh, thy friend is far too Pindaric for this presence. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
“How fine that is!” exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
What I have attempted in them is mostly of the Pindaric and the Lyric Way. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)] Reference
More important are the three odes in the 'irregular Pindaric' form introduced by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
STROPHE, same as Stanza, 53; in the Pindaric ode, the first (fourth, etc.) stanza, 131. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Dame Lebrun; but the object of it was no longer the Pindaric poet, but the sub-collector of taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
'Horatian' ode or the complex system of strophe, antistrophe and epode of the 'Pindaric' ode, 131 ff. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
It was garnished, no doubt, with much of what then passed for Pindaric lyric; it was eked out with music. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
These two poems are the best examples in English of, the true Pindaric Ode as devised by the ancient Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
A mythical narrative, connected in some way with the victor or his city, usually occupies the central part of the Pindaric ode. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Pindaric of the late seventeenth and earlier eighteenth centuries, and in the rhymelessness of Sayers earlier and of Mr. Arnold later. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Even the heroic couplets of his poem on "Poetry" aim rather at pseudo-Pindaric diffuseness than at epigrammatic concentration of statement. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)] Reference
Wearing out heaviest Fate to a Pindaric high strain. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
He soars Pindaric heights, and sails the waste of Heaven?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
His ode is Pindaric in the late seventeenth-century sense. From Wordnik.com. [A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.] Reference
His Pindaric odes, &c., are feeble spasms, and need not detain us. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Seest thou, Raleigh, thy friend is far too Pindaric for this presence. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
The cities could no longer welcome an Olympian winner with Pindaric hymns. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
'This animated Pindaric made its first appearance the latter end of last year. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
There is indeed a big Pindaric sort of poetry about a plunging mass of cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The River and I] Reference
His Pindaric flights were such as a sparrow, gazing upward at a hawk, might venture on. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
In the Victorian age, the ode, in its full Pindaric sense, has not been very frequently used. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature] Reference
Pindaric 'Charmers,' of the Homeric lotus, are things to be forgotten, after his truly divine eloquence. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
This official ode persisted long after the pseudo-Pindaric flag was lowered and Cowley had become neglected. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
At this academy Watts began to write poetry, chiefly in the Latin language, and in the then popular Pindaric measure. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
It has certainly much pomp, and thundering sound of language and versification, but wants the genuine Pindaric inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Preface we are told that the Ode is the most spirited kind of poetry, and that the Pindaric is the most spirited kind of Ode. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
Swift began early to think, or to hope, that he was a poet, and wrote Pindaric Odes to Temple, to the king, and to the Athenian. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the connection of a national error, and for the cure of our Pindaric madness. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
I dare say, our whole lives will be Pindaric: my only plan of life is to have none at all, which, I think, my little Bell will approve. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
Gray's Pindaric Odes are, I believe, generally given up at present: they are stately and pedantic, a kind of methodical borrowed phrenzy. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
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