Then, under the conduct of Manduce, and singing I do not know what dithyrambics, crepalocomes, and epenons, opening their baskets and pots, they offered their god: ❋ Unknown (2002)
"I admire," said Aristodemus, "Homer for his epic poetry, Melanippides for his dithyrambics, Sophocles for tragedy, Polycletes for statuary, and Xeuxis for painting." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Not only did she know all the tales, but in some sort she lived in the memory of the heroic and religious traditions sung in the solemn dithyrambics of the Edda, and met with in every page of the Islandic sagas. ❋ Various (N/A)
When we are tired trying to explain that, we fall back into dithyrambics on the ❋ Domino (N/A)
It's the difference between poetry and horse-power, dithyrambics and dynamos, Keats and Kipling! ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)
She heard a negro shouting dithyrambics about some religion she could never make out. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
The priest was fuddled, hiccuping in his amorous dithyrambics as he paddled with the girl's hand. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
The hour has therefore arrived, calmly to consider a movement which has imposed itself upon the history of French art from 1860 to 1900 with extreme energy, to leave dithyrambics as well as polemics, and to speak of it with a view to exactness. ❋ Camille Mauclair (1908)
In those times and among those men, Horace with his dithyrambics affected not only the spirit but the will, uniting the subtle suggestion of his verses to all the other incentives and solicitations that on every side were persuading men to drink. ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)
Robert Lowe, who was a conspicuous member of the new Cabinet, burst into rather premature dithyrambics, crying, “The Liberal Ministry resolved to knit the hearts of the Empire into one harmonious concord, and knitted they were accordingly.” ❋ Russell, G W E (1904)
For, less than six feet away, behind the translucent walls of paper, he could hear the melodious dithyrambics of the three voices. ❋ Unknown (1898)
There is in these praises addressed to the bourgeoisie a certain tragical humor -- they have been compared to dithyrambics. ❋ Unknown (1896)
And here, too, his wonderful clairvoyance, and his command over the vagaries of his own imagination, come into play, for he never persuades himself, with all his dithyrambics, that Contarini is quite a poet. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
One turns, however, with a sense of relief from those fierce dithyrambics to the beauty and pathos of her other poems. ❋ E. Pauline Johnson (1887)
The dithyrambics of the _Pall Mall Gazette_ drew from ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
Robert Lowe, who was a conspicuous member of the new Cabinet, burst into rather premature dithyrambics, crying, "The Liberal Ministry resolved to knit the hearts of the Empire into one harmonious concord, and _knitted they were accordingly_." ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
We may put aside the fulsome dithyrambics of grateful archdeacons and promoted chaplains, and be content to rest the Bishop's reputation for agreeableness on testimony so little interested as that of Matthew Arnold and Archbishop Tait. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
Surely this translation of the Professor's misplaced dithyrambics into the homeliest of colloquialisms is both good parody and just criticism. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
Putting aside vague dissertations and dithyrambics in favor of theories with a scientific tendency as to the nature of genius, we meet first the one attributing to it a pathological origin. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)
Listen to the song [Largiloquent Dithyramb] [next time] you smoke [pot]. ❋ Phoebe Jane (2007)
