Epopee

'epopee'; but in my court of equity it is one as it is. ❋ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1733)

The poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You are so severe a classic that I question whether you will allow me to call his Henriade an epic poem, for want of the proper number of gods, devils, witches and other absurdities, requisite for the machinery; which machinery is, it seems, necessary to constitute the epopee. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Henriade will be an epic poem, according to the strictest statute laws of the epopee; but in my court of equity it is one as it is. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Fascinated by material aims, worshipping the Napoleonic epopee to the extent of framing his conduct by it, measuring the happiness of existence rather by its honours and furniture than by its moral attainments, he missed the first poetry of love as he missed the last wisdom of age. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He put into it the spirit of ancient times; he blended in it at once drama, dialogue, portraiture, landscape, description; he brought into it the marvellous and the true, those elements of the epopee; he made poetry mingle in it with the humblest sorts of language. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Arthurian or of the Carlovingian epopee were adored by this wayward but generous girl. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

O roi infortune, 'commencing an epopee on the Incas. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)

He talked, and the formidable epopee of the Roman legend was evoked, interpreted by the fervent Christian in that mystical and providential sense, which all, indeed, proclaims in that spot, where the Mamertine prison relates the trial of St. Peter, where the portico of the temple of Faustine serves as ❋ Various (N/A)

What has come down to us is "a sort of patchwork epic," as Prescott called the Ballads of the Cid, a popular epopee in all its native roughness, wild phantasy and extravagance of deed and description as it developed during successive generations. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It was a favorite thesis of Fielding, often repeated by his successors, that the novel is a sort of comic epopee. ❋ Various (N/A)

The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee: short spontaneous effusions prepare the way, and furnish materials for the architectonic genius of the poet. ❋ Various (N/A)

“I still write an epopee or a tragedy now and then; but what brings me in the most is that industry in which you have already seen me engaged, master—carrying a pyramid of chairs in my teeth. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Without going to Marseilles we can form some idea of it by turning over the leaves of the album in which Sirouy has skillfully reproduced the various subjects of this vast epopee. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Spanish epic was modelled from the inception of the French epopee; but it is probable that there were Spanish epics antedating the period of French influence (e.g. the Fernán González). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)