678 examples of epigrams in sentences

Thence followed Babylon, Nineveh, Venice, London; haberdashers, goldsmiths, taverns, playhouses, satires, epigrams, puns,these all came in on the town part and the thither side of innocence.

Collection of Epigrams, with notes and observations.

The imprecation could be expanded, since he could talk of religion, of the faith, of charity, of the ringing of bells, of what the Indians owed to the friars, he could get sentimental and melt into Castelarian epigrams and lyric periods.

In his handful of epigrams he finds nothing too severe for the place of his exile.

Nothing is more easy than to sneer at Seneca, or to write clever epigrams on one whose moral attainments fell infinitely short of his own great ideal.

Pope could make a portrait specific by the vigorous use of epigrams, but Mrs. Haywood's comments on her heroes and heroines are but feeble.

But his favourite topics are the deeper springs of character, rather than superficial peculiarities; and his vigorous sayings are concentrated essence of strong sense and deep feeling, not dainty epigrams or graceful embodiments of delicate observation.

He distinguished himself at school and at the University by his knowledge of the classics, and gained several prizes for Greek epigrams.

[Footnote 15: It need scarcely be mentioned that this is the name given to a collection of sarcastic epigrams by Goethe and Schiller.

It is in this book of hers that Sand prints such illuminating epigrams as these: "There are great errors which are nearer the truth than little truths.

There are several maddening cases in which I took two or three pages in attempting to describe an attitude of which the essence could be expressed in an epigram; only there was no time for epigrams.

But I should know uncommonly well that genuine professional soldiers do not talk like Adelphi villains and utter theatrical epigrams in praise of abstract violence.

The other day, as we were talking, she tapped the edge of her Ivanhoe with a slate-pencilfor she is also studying the Greatest Common Divisorand said, warningly, "You must not make epigrams; for if you succeeded you would be brilliant, and everything brilliant is tiresome.

" "If you keep on, you will be making epigrams presently, and then I shall find you tiresome, and go away.

LOVES FRAGMENT FROM THE "BERENICE" EPIGRAMS AND EPITAPHS: I.VI.

* EPIGRAMS AND EPITAPHS.

There are too many giggling epigrams; people are too willing to look on collections of mutually hostile opinions with the same kind of curiosity which they bestow on a collection of mutually hostile beasts in a menagerie.

In one of his Latin epigrams occurs the celebrated line upon the miracle at Cana: Vidit et erubuit nympha pudica Deum: as englished by Dryden, The conscious water saw its Lord and blushed.

His poems read like a series of epigrams; and every line has a hit or an effect.

Learners who had been tortured over dismal homilies on the pantheism of Spinoza, and yet more dismal expositions of the pan-nihilism of Hegel, seized with eagerness upon a little book which gave an intense reality to Spinoza and his thoughts, which threw Hegel's contradictories into epigrams, and made the course of philosophic thought unfold itself naturally with all the life and coherence of a well-considered plot....

You promised to let me hear some of your epigrams when an opportunity occurred.

They have poured forth a torrent of odes, epigrams, and part of an imaginary epic poem, called the "Rolliad," with a commentary and notes, that is as good as the "Dispensary" and "Dunciad," with more ease.

The Miscellanies of Mr. Amhurst, the greatest part of which were written at the university, consist chiefly of poems sacred and profane, original, paraphrased, imitated, and translated; tales, epigrams, epistles, love-verses, elegies, and satires.

His unfinished poem, Retaliation, a series of epigrams in epitaph form on some of his distinguished literary and artistic friends, was issued a few days after his death, and added greatly to his reputation as a wit and humorist, a reputation which was still further enhanced when, in 1776, The Haunch of Venison made its appearance.

EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, AND FRAGMENTS.

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