elegy

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• The conclusion of this elegy is irresistably affecting. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
• On Thornton, a member of the same hall, the most favoured of these associates, whom he lost when a young man, he wrote an elegy, which is one of the best of his works. —  Lives of the English Poets
• It is an elegy, and cannot, therefore, rank as high as an equally consummate example of epic, lyric, or dramatic art. —  Life of John Milton
• The form of the elegy is a dialogue betwixt a passenger and a domestic servant. —  The Bride of Lammermoor
• In the collection of “Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea,” to which Lord Byron so skilfully had recourse for the technical knowledge and facts out of which he has composed his own powerful description, the reader will find the account of the loss of the Juno here referred to.] [Footnote 25: This elegy is in his first (unpublished) volume.] [Footnote 26: See page 25.] [Footnote 27: For the display of his declamatory powers, on the speech-days, he selected always the most vehement passages, — such as the speech of Zanga over the body of Alonzo, and Lear's address to the storm. —  Life of Lord Byron

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