Anacreontic

Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow? ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

The word of the yesterday, according to my beloved AWAD, is anacreontic, and it means “celebrating love and drinking.” ❋ Barbylon (2004)

Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

It gives me pleasure to draw the picture of those ideal amours which every warm-blooded youth of twenty has at one time or other cherished in his thoughts; to substitute virginal charms and graces for vice and harlotry -- and after the manner of those charming heathen poets who have so often filled our dreams with their fancies, to mingle the anacreontic with the idyllic. ❋ Mario Uchard (N/A)

At times the members of certain social clubs gave in these rooms subscription balls of anacreontic tendencies, the feminine element of which was recruited among the popular gay favorites of the period. ❋ Various (N/A)

With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)

The peculiar verse of Skelton, styled _skeltonical_, is a sort of English anacreontic. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)

He is the most fluent, imaginative poet of the eighteenth century and is especially successful in the pastoral and anacreontic styles. ❋ Unknown (1899)

German feeling in the first half of the eighteenth century was chiefly influenced, on the one hand, by Richardson's novels, which left no room for Nature, and by the poetry of Young and Thomson; on the other, by the pastoral idylls interspersed with anacreontic love-passages, affected by the French. ❋ Alfred Biese (1893)

Chaulieu (1639-1720), the "poëte de la bonne compagnie," an anacreontic senior, patriarch of pleasure, survived the classical century, and sang his songs of facile, epicurean delights; his friend ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)

At fifteen, Alexandre le Jeune wrote anacreontic verses, and (less excusably) a commentary on the Institutions of Gaius. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

There has never been a chapter written which so clearly shows the drunkard's nature as this vulgar anacreontic. ❋ John Hay (1870)

Indian blew with his nose, a song which was no doubt anacreontic. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

The only poem of his that still lives is the beautiful little anacreontic beginning “Busy, curious, thirsty Fly.” ❋ Unknown (1853)

"Anacreon," from his translation of that Greek poet, and his own original anacreontic songs. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

No anacreontic thoughts came to me, I assure you, nor any disposition to rhyme in _ette_, herbette, filette, coudrette. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)