Do we say elegy or eulogy

elegy 419 occurrences

"Their name, their years, spelt by th' muse, The place of fame and elegy supply."

" What an exquisite idea of stillness is conveyed in the oft-quoted line from Gray's "Elegy:" "And drowsy tinklings lull the distant fold.

We cannot, however, close this brief notice of the allusions that have been made to sheep by our poets, without quoting a couple of verses from Robert Burns's "Elegy on Poor Mailie," his only "pet yowe:" "Thro' a' the town she troll'd by him; A lang half-mile she could descry him; Wi' kindly bleat, when she did spy him.

If elegiac poetry is the expression of subjective emotion, sentiment, and thought, we might class this Persian masterpiece as elegy; but an elegy is a sustained train of connected imagery and reflection.

If elegiac poetry is the expression of subjective emotion, sentiment, and thought, we might class this Persian masterpiece as elegy; but an elegy is a sustained train of connected imagery and reflection.

"HER EYES ARE BLUEBELLS NOW" Her eyes are bluebells now, her voice a bird, And the long sighing grass her elegy; She who a woman was is now a star In the high heaven shining down on me.

A funeral oration was composed by Jeremiah, or rather an elegy, afterward sung by the nation on the anniversary of the battle.

It was prefaced by the biography which is here reprinted, and to the biography was appended that noble and pathetic elegy which will make Tickell's name as immortal as Addison's.

An Elegy on Mr. PATRIGE, the Almanack maker, who died on the 29th of this instant March, 1708.

In short, what with Undertakers, Embalmers, Joiners, Sextons, and your Elegy hawkers upon a late practitioner in Physic and Astrology; I got not one wink of sleep that night, nor scarce a moment's rest ever since.

That stratagem failing, out cometh a long sable Elegy bedecked with hour-glasses, mattocks, skulls, spades, and skeletons, with an Epitaph [see p. 486] as confidently written to abuse me and my profession, as if I had been under ground these twenty years.

'what had Ben said had he read his own Eternity, in that lasting elegy given him by our author.'

Selections, edited by W.L. Phelps, in Athenaeum Press; Selections from Gray and Cowper, in Canterbury Poets, Riverside Literature, etc.; Gray's Elegy, in Selections from Five English Poets (Ginn and Company).

Can you explain the continued popularity of his "Elegy"?

Gray's Elegy | 1755.

There was a departure from the hackneyed forms and subjects of the preceding age and an introduction of more of the individual and ideal element, such as can be found in Gray's Elegy and Collins's Ode to Evening.

See if the influence of Il Penseroso is noticeable in Collins's Ode to Evening (Ward, III., 287; Bronson, III., 220; Oxford, 531; Manly, I., 273; Century, 386) and in Gray's Elegy (Ward, III., 331; Bronson, III., 238; Oxford, 516; Manly, I., 267; Century, 398).

Robert Burns wrote and did some things unworthy of a great poet; but when Scotland thinks of him, she quotes the lines which he wrote for Tam Samson's Elegy: "Heav'n rest his saul, whare'er he be! Is th' wish o' mony mae than me: He had twa faults, or maybe three, Yet what remead?

Wheresor'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that time hath flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

"Perhaps you'd like a special elegy to be read at the grave," he rumbled eagerly.

"Such being the case," he pursued, "there can be no objection to the reading of an elegy as part of the service.

ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM, Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope.

* * ELEGY To the Memory of Miss Emily Kay, (cousin to Miss Ellen Gee, of Kew,) who lately died at Ewell, and was buried in Essex.

In this, it is that, the style of an epitaph necessarily differs from that of an elegy.

GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy written in a country churchyard.

eulogy 253 occurrences

Forensic oratory he defines as that of the law court; deliberative, of the senate or public assembly; and occasional, of eulogy and congratulation.

Aristotle includes it in rhetoric; for in its field of eulogy, panegyric, felicitation, and congratulation, it too uses the available means of persuasion to prove some person or thing praiseworthy or the reverse.

In the same discourse he pronounced the eulogy of Dr. Mason, who had died a few days before.

' Having availed myself of this editor's eulogy on my departed friend, for which I warmly thank him, let me not suffer the lustre of his reputation, honestly acquired by profound learning and vigorous eloquence, to be tarnished by a charge of illiberality.

Amongst the lamentations over his death printed in Spenser's works, there is one poem by Matthew Roydon, a few verses of which I shall quote, being no vain eulogy.

[Here followed a long eulogy on the gallantry and humanity of the thirty-five captors.

This choice is assuredly a eulogy on his good taste, they are made for each other.

And although she who speaks, in praising the beauty of another, may do so in good faith, she who listens to the eulogy, considers less what the other says than her style of beauty.

The daily sneer or growl at your remarks is not to be made amends for by a possible eulogy or defence of your understanding against depredators who may not present themselves, and on an occasion which may never arise.

The eulogy passed upon Vettius Epagathus is justified by the uniform strictness of his daily life (he has walked in all the commandments &c.), not by the single act of his constancy in death.

He pronounced a high-flown eulogy upon M. Arguelles; he envied him, he said, for many things, but he envied him most for the magnanimity which he had shown in sparing his Sovereign.

Mr. McCALLUM SCOTT has been rewarded for his consistent admirationdid he not publish a eulogy of "Winston Churchill in Peace and War" when his hero's fortunes were temporarily clouded?and on two days a week will have the privilege of acting as lightning-conductor.

Nothing was more irksome to him than to be compelled to endure calls of mere curiosity, or to answer letters either of fulsome eulogy of himself or asking for his eulogy of the MSS.

Nothing was more irksome to him than to be compelled to endure calls of mere curiosity, or to answer letters either of fulsome eulogy of himself or asking for his eulogy of the MSS.

" The writer was surprised to find, notwithstanding Mr. Toombs's eulogy of Southern opportunities, his understanding of the North so imperfect, and still more surprised at the political and social principles involved in the spirit of what followed.

The corpse is attended by the relations and friends, chanting passages from the Koran, to the mosque, where it is washed, and it is afterwards interred in a place at some distance from the town, the Iman, or priest, pronouncing an oration, containing the eulogy of the deceased.

Over against this persistent acrimony may be put the fine eulogy of Mr. C. Kegan Paul, his biographer, to represent the favourable judgment of our own time, whilst I will venture to quote one remarkable passage that voices the opinions of many among Godwin's most eminent contemporaries.

Now, Paul had learned that; and in this noble eulogy he has given us the most wonderful and original account extant of the summum bonum.

Eulogy on life: "God's television."

Eulogy on life: "God's television."

The praise she bestows on him expresses, with great fidelity, the sentiments that were entertained by his contemporaries; and which were become so general, that for the purpose of making his epitaph, it should seem that the simple eulogy of Mary would have sufficed.

No unmarried man could have written such a eulogy of marriage without being on the brink of it."

" Though no famed eulogy proclaims her worth, Nor with her fellow-pilgrims ranked on earth, A higher record doth her history trace; In heaven's high register she claims a place.

This drew another shot, which effectually justified the magistrate's eulogy, for it certainly flew as much ahead of the stranger as the first had flown astern.

Why should Shakespeare write 'Othello' if even his triumph consisted in the eulogy, 'Mr. Shakespeare is fit for something better than writing tragedies'?

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