epigram

• Seneca, Pliny the younger, Hadrian, and many others, were fond of composing them; and in modern times the epigram has been a favorite kind of poetry with most good writers Phćdrus, who lived under Augustus and Tiberius, wrote pleasing fables. —  A Smaller History of Rome
• But it is generally possible to discover the original and pivotal epigram which is the centre and purpose of the play. —  George Bernard Shaw
• 15, 1774 No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay No storied urn nor animated bust This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust XXVII ON A SCHOOLMASTER The Willie Michie of this epigram was, it is said, schoolmaster of the parish of Cleish, in Fifeshire: he met Burns during his first visit to Edinburgh Here lie Willie Michie's banes O, Satan! —  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
• It is supposed that these men, like many others, generally began drinking on account of the bite of a snake, and usually had to quit on account of attacks from the same reptiles But, Mr. President, if you will allow me a few words of becoming gravity with which to retract any aspersions which I may have inadvertently cast upon the sacred person of the ancient Puritan, I assure you I will use those words with a due sense of the truth of the epigram--that "gravity is a stratagem invented to conceal the poverty of the mind." —  Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
• A mere step above comes the epigram, the isolated epigram framed and glazed. —  Certain Personal Matters

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