Clamantis_, or _voice of one crying in the wilderness_, is directly historical, being a chronicle, in Latin elegiacs, of the popular revolts of Wat Tyler in the time of Richard II., and a sermon on fatalism, which, while it calls for a reformation in the clergy, takes ground against ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)
There are still extant a few copies of his satire, in Latin elegiacs, called Beccerius, privately printed at the suggestion of Mr.A. H. Tod, his form-master. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)
Very little is known of his career, the few facts on record being chiefly related by himself in a genealogical account in Latin elegiacs, preserved in the British ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orléans in 810, in Latin elegiacs, of which the Roman Missal takes the first six for the hymn following the procession on Palm Sunday (the use to which the hymn was always dedicated). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The ambitious listener might better start from the level of Chopin's melodious piano music, or Grieg's northern elegiacs or Tchaikovsky's gorgeous colorfulness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
IMAGINE that you are a teacher of Roman history and the Latin language, anxious to impart your enthusiasm for the ancient world – for the elegiacs of Ovid and the odes of Horace, the sinewy economy of Latin grammar as exhibited in the oratory of Cicero, the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars, the generalship of Julius Caesar and the voluptuous excesses of the later emperors. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
Laertius 'statement (A1) that Xenophanes “wrote in epic meter, also elegiacs, and iambics” is confirmed by extant poems in hexameters and elegiac meter, with one couplet (B14) a combination of hexameter and iambic trimeter. ❋ Lesher, James (2008)
He would, for instance, on Tuesday give us a passage of any author from Milton to Wordsworth, and on the following Tuesday take up our versions of them, done into whatever meter you deemed appropriate—hexameters for Milton, Ovidian or Tibullan elegiacs for Wordsworth. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus ❋ Unknown (2007)
Philip Sidney has given in his Arcadia specimens of hexameters, elegiacs, sapphics, asclepiads, anacreontics, hendecasyllables. ❋ Unknown (2006)
How charmingly must this divine creature warble forth (if a proper occasion be given) her melodious elegiacs! — ❋ Unknown (2006)
"The golden season of beauty and -- um -- elegiacs, Your Cognizance." ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1994)
"Why, the most beautiful Latin elegiacs and hexameters." ❋ P.A. Sheehan (N/A)
Pope's couplet may (or may not) stand for elegiacs, and the _In Memoriam_ stanza for some one of Horace's metres. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (N/A)
Latin elegiacs of the _Stultifera Navis_ (1497) of Jacob Locher the book was read throughout Europe. ❋ Various (N/A)
Dodyngton wrote a copy of Greek elegiacs, and a Latin prose epistle. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is not even certain that they are all from the same hand, as, unless we transpose two verses, the alphabetic order of the first poem differs from that of the other three, and the number of elegiacs -- three -- in each verse of the first two poems, differs from the number -- one -- in the third, and two in the fourth. ❋ John Edgar McFadyen (N/A)
For many years he had not composed hexameters, elegiacs or iambics. ❋ Various (N/A)
