elegiac

• The conclusion here is sweetly elegiac, and quite moving But it is the look of the film that most impresses. —  FSF - March2006
• Those of Rosamond are wholly elegiac, lamentations and meditations recited, without or against occasion. —  Figures of Several Centuries
• The pathetic sentiment of his farewell to Hrothgar is possibly to be ascribed, in the details of its rhetoric, to the common affection of Anglo-Saxon poetry for the elegiac mood; but the softer passages are not out of keeping with the wilder moments of Beowulf_, and they add greatly to the interest of his character. —  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
• It is in Latin elegiac verse, and as being directed against ambition and discontent may be compared with the first satire of Horace. —  History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
• Imperiale in the Museum Historicum describes him thus: 'Perpetuo moerentis et altius cogitantis gessit aspectum, gracili mento_, facie decolori, conniventibus cavisque oculis Footnote 78: 'La mia fiera malinconia' is a phrase which often recurs in his letters The tone of his literary work, whether in prose or poetry, is elegiac--musically, often querulously plaintive. —  Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction

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