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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A song suited to convivial gatherings, or where toasts are drunk.
Examples
“Much the same as though one were to be interrupted for a minute in the midst of one of our church liturgies to hear a drinking-song.”
“A woman rises, as in a tranquil sea the first wave that feels the tempest's breath foams up to announce it; she makes a sign with her hand to command silence, empties her glass at a gulp and with the same movement undoes her hair, which falls in shining tresses over her shoulders; she opens her mouth as if to start a drinking-song; her eyes are half closed.”
“Later on in the evening of the same day he added to this creation two more songs from Shakespeare -- the drinking-song from 'Antony and Cleopatra,' and the well-known 'Who is”
“If any man expect from my poems the same easiness of style which he admires in a drinking-song for him, I have not written.”
“You see, I shouldn't care to make the acquaintance of a gorgeous creature with black hair and a train of yellow satin half a mile long, who tosses up a gilt goblet when she sings a drinking-song, and then gets into a frightful passion about what one doesn't understand.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
“The very sunlight is molten; and the echoes of a drinking-song come faint but very joyous.”
“It is possibly the oldest drinking-song in the world.”
“Harry sang an old drinking-song to the water-basin with touching sentiment; I gave him hearty applause and joined in the chorus.”
“Curiously enough, Mendelssohn's "Antigone" begins with a chorus more like a drinking-song than anything else, and the first solo is pure”
“Particularly famous among the poems is the "Confessio Goliae" which was referred to the Archipoeta, and may be regarded as the prototype of the goliardic songs: strophes 12-17 (Meum est propositam in taberna mori) are even today sung as a drinking-song in German student circles.”
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