1532 examples of epic in sentences

Thou mayest well judge what scoffings and revilings my Dionysiac epic has brought upon me in this evil age; yet, had this been all, peradventure I might have borne it.

"The thirteenth book!" exclaimed Nonnus, "containing the contest between wine and honey, without which my epic becomes totally and entirely unintelligible!"

And so it is that the epic on the exploits of Bacchus and the paraphrase of St. John's Gospel have alike come down to us as the work of Nonnus, whose authorship of both learned men have never been able to deny, having regard to the similarity of style, but never could explain until the facts above narrated came to light in one of the Fayoum papyri recently acquired by the Archduke Rainer.

Thus of the twenty-six books into which the Poetics is conventionally divided, five are devoted to the general theory of poetry, three to diction, two to epic, and sixteen to drama.

Under the narrative manner he includes lyric, where the speaker expresses himself in the first person, and epic, where the speaker tells his story in the third person.

As an interpretation of classical doctrine this is not illegitimate; but Pontanus runs into confusion by applying to the narrative of epic the narratio of classical rhetoric, which meant the lawyer's statement of facts.

The remainder of the book explains the nature and history of the various poetical forms, as lyric, epic, tragedy, pastoral, and so on.

Whereas Aristotle classified poetry with music and dance, Jonson compares the epic or dramatic plot to a house.

And at the very end of the Poetics, where he is endeavoring to prove that tragedy is a higher art than epic, he does so by showing that drama has all the epic elements, and in addition music and spectacle, which produce the most vivid of pleasures.

To the allegorist, the fable or plot in epic or dramatic poetry was only a rind to cover attractively the kernel of truth.

Our epic poems are of German origin, and the Table Round is of Celtic origin.

653-676 JAMES MACPHERSON "TRANSLATIONS" FROM OSSIAN FINGAL, AN EPIC POEM (1762), BOOK VI, §§ 10-14 THE SONGS OF SELMA (1762), §§ 4-8, 20-21 CHRISTOPHER SMART A SONG TO DAVID (1763),

Pope, in the most ambitious literary effort of the day, his translation of the Iliad, labors to enrich the treasury of English poetry with an epic that sheds radiance upon the ideals and manners of an heroic age.

The earliest form of literature is the ballad, which is the germ of all subsequent forms of poetry, for it has in itself all their elements: the lyric, for it was first chanted to some stringed instrument; the epic, for it tells a tale, often of solemn and ancient report; the dramatic, for its actors are ever ready to start forward into life, snatch the word from the mouth of the narrator, and speak in their own persons.

Of the lyrical poems of England, religion possesses the most; of the epic, the best; of the dramatic, the oldest.

Posterity will think the horrors of civil war compensated by the pleasure of reading Lucan's epic!

He also wrote an epic poem on the universe, to which he gave the name of Kosmos.

He is said to have been a great epic painter, as Phidias was an epic sculptor and Homer an epic poet.

He is said to have been a great epic painter, as Phidias was an epic sculptor and Homer an epic poet.

He is said to have been a great epic painter, as Phidias was an epic sculptor and Homer an epic poet.

He took his subjects from epic poetry.

Milton thinks he might have surpassed Virgil, had he attempted epic poetry.

The grandeur and originality of the ancients were displayed rather in epic and dramatic poetry.

He imitated the personages and the subjects of the old mythology, and treated them in an epic spirit, his subjects being almost invariably taken from Homer and the Epic cycle.

He imitated the personages and the subjects of the old mythology, and treated them in an epic spirit, his subjects being almost invariably taken from Homer and the Epic cycle.

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