For there is no common term we could apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus and the Socratic dialogues on the one hand; and, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic,
elegiac, or any similar metre.
I had always admired the genius of Glaucon and Adeimantus, but on hearing these words I was quite delighted, and said: Sons of an illustrious father, that was not a bad beginning of the
Elegiac verses which the admirer of Glaucon made in honour of you after you had distinguished yourselves at the battle of Megara:--
He still talked vaguely of the things he was going to do in the future, but with less conviction; and he was conscious that his friends no longer believed in him: when he had drank two or three glasses of whiskey he was inclined to be
elegiac.
The poetry of the sun has something of the epic in it; that of fog and mist is
elegiac and religious.
"Spare us your
elegiac tones," said the Parrot giggling.
Indeed, he bore some grudge against the family and friends of Ardshiel, and before he was drunk he read me a lampoon, in very good Latin, but with a very ill meaning, which he had made in
elegiac verses upon a person of that house.
There remain also a few pagan lyric poems, which are all not only somber like 'Beowulf' but distinctly
elegiac, that is pensively melancholy.
He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight
elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books, beginning "O genus humanum," and which he himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the subject.
Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin
elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phaedrus.
Set in and around the titular coastal community, Manchester By the Sea is an
elegiac drama, which eloquently explores universal themes of grief, guilt and sexual awakening through the eyes of a 40-year-old handyman.
Set in and around the titular coastal community, Manchester the Sea is an
elegiac drama, which eloquently explores universal themes of grief, guilt and sexual awakening through the eyes of a