Pindarics

The waning structure of the Pindarics may allude therefore to metaphysical problems that had no solutions, problems that in a prelogical age could be expressed only in mythopoeic terms.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968

Then, after Dryden, the regular Pindarics of Gray and certain of Collins 'Odes helped to carry on the tradition down to Coleridge's Dejection, Monody on the

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

Hymn on Washing-day -- Sonnets to one's grandmother -- or Pindarics on gooseberry-pye; and yet, we are afraid, it will not be quite easy to convince Mr Wordsworth, that the same ridicule must infallibly attach to most of the pathetic pieces in these volumes.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Hymn on Washing-day, Sonnets to one's grandmother -- or Pindarics on gooseberry-pie; and yet, we are afraid, it will not be quite easy to persuade Mr. Wordsworth, that the same ridicule must infallibly attach to most of the pathetic pieces in these volumes.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

He has been very good-natured to me, and it isn't his fault if I'm not Poet Laureate at this writing, and engaged in cursing the Czar in Pindarics very prettily.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

Mr Arnold himself, as might have been expected from his previous experiments in unrhymed Pindarics, has given us strophes and antistrophes most punctiliously equivalent in syllables; but sometimes with hardly any, and never with very much, vesture of poetry about them.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

Cowley's Pindarics were filled with something which passed for fire, but has now utterly gone out.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Cowley's Pindarics were filled with something which passed for fire, but has now utterly gone out.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

He has been very good-natured to _me_, and it isn't his fault if I'm not Poet Laureate at this writing, and engaged in cursing the Czar in Pindarics very prettily.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

During the next nine years, when the remembrance of Collins and Gray was working a glorious change in the popular mind, he ascended to Pindarics, and closed his lyrics with some such pious invocation as this: --

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828