Pindaric

Kildare, the favourite sister of Sir William Temple, had been described by Swift in early pindaric verses as “wise and great.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

My preface to the Dernieres Chansons has aroused in Madame Colet a pindaric fury. ❋ Sand, George, 1804-1876 (1921)

She wrote a long pindaric Ode on the Spleen, which was printed in a miscellany in 1701, and was her first introduction to the public. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

Gray's _Bard_, a pindaric, in which the last survivor of the Welsh bards invokes vengeance on {195} Edward I., the destroyer of his guild. ❋ Unknown (1886)

The irregular pindaric ode was now abandoned to Arwaker, Behn, Durfey, and a few inferior authors; who either from its tempting facility of execution, or from an affected admiration of old times and fashions, still pestered the public with imitations of Cowley. ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)

Some part of this deviation was, perhaps, owing to the nature of the stanza; for the structure of the quatrain prohibited the bard, who used it, from rambling into those digressive similes, which, in the pindaric strophe, might be pursued through endless ramifications. ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)

'And freedom shriek'd when Kosciusko fell,' was taken from a much-ridiculed piece by Dennis, a pindaric on William ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

Dryden was unable to discover the wit and the satirist in the clouds of incomprehensible pindaric obscurity in which he was enveloped; and the aged bard pronounced the hasty, and never to be pardoned sentence, -- ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

I must go & I must run — Swifter than the setting sun. & the morning is wet — & I am engaged out to breakfast at nine — & my pindaric to the chapel bell not yet finishd — finishd said I? not yet begun! ❋ Unknown (1794)

I go to Bristol next week & there shall expect to hear from you. now this is this abominable chapel bell reminding me of morning prayers. seven o clock & I have breakfasted & written half an ode & seven lines & 3 quarters of a letter beside date & exordium already. by the by suppose I try a pindaric to this said chapel bell? ❋ Unknown (1794)

In fact the two characters are very similar — Odin passed himself for a God & Joshua, tho he had miracles at command was more modest. down fell Jericho — I may catch some sparks perhaps from that flames of sublimity which blazes in your pindaric upon the Sow & the ❋ Unknown (1792)

With this view I have endeavoured to characterize impartially the pindaric manner, by pointing out _its excellencies_, by enumerating _its defects_, and by enquiring from what particular causes the latter are to be deduced. ❋ John Ogilvie (1772)

(St. Cæcilia's ode excepted) and his pindaric odes being now neglected, can proceed from no other cause, than that they demand too much attention for a common reader, and contain sentiments so sublimely noble, as not to be comprehended by a vulgar mind; but to those who think, and are accustomed to contemplation, they appear great and ravishing. ❋ Theophilus Cibber (1730)

In that kind of poetry which is grave, and demands extensive thinking, no poet has a right to be compared with Cowley: Pope and Dryden, who are as remarkable for a force of thinking, as elegance of poetry, are yet inferior to him; there are more ideas in one of Cowley's pindaric odes, than in any piece of equal length by those two great genius's ❋ Theophilus Cibber (1730)

Martha, widow of Sir Thomas Giffard, Bart., of County Kildare, the favourite sister of Sir William Temple, had been described by Swift in early pindaric verses as "wise and great." ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)

Even the eye of Dryden was unable to discover the wit and the satirist in the clouds of incomprehensible pindaric obscurity in which he was enveloped; and the aged bard pronounced the hasty, and never to be pardoned sentence, ” “Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet.” [ ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)

Dryden even contends, that, for variety's sake, the pindaric measure might be admitted, of which Davenant set an example in the "Siege of ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

[Mate], tonight I am getting [absolutely] [pindared]!!! ❋ The Chicken Shed Possy (2009)

[Wow] he is [so hot]! He is [such a] pindar! ❋ Katieisaladie (2017)

Omg Pindar [ate] his whole [box of food] [the other day]!!! ❋ FatCatLover (2018)

[Benson] and [Luke] are in a Pindaric relationship. [Good for] them. ❋ MikeAAStorm (2021)