dithyramb

• For suddenly--on page three--the dithyramb is interrupted by the underlined words, What am I to do about Myra How well I remember asking myself that question. —  FSF - March2006
• The manner in which Rietz's composition to the Schiller dithyramb is to be interwoven with the poem I cannot venture fully to explain. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso,"
• His last letter is a kind of dithyramb about "Lohengrin," which naturally predisposes me favourably towards the man. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
• [203] Diderot was not likely to foresee that what he designed for an illustration of the frenzy of the Pindaric dithyramb, would so soon be mistaken for a short formula of practical politics. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• The looped trace-chains were jingling a merry dithyramb, her head was nodding, her tail swaying, and Seffy, propped by his elbow on her broad back, one leg swung between the hames, the other keeping time on her ribs, was singing I want to be an angel And with the angels stand A crown upon my forehead A harp within my hand His adoring father chuckled. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)

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