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elegy
1. This was better than he'd ever imagined it could be, and he celebrated with a silent elegy to the Guardian of Blackness, who had made it all possible
2. A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
3. God is a spiritual being and created man according to his elegy
4. I tried to find some instructive lines in the elegy 'On his Mistris' but
5. elegy especially powerful is that it is being spoken by those who have no doubts whatsoever about the strength of that older way, and absolutely no doubts
6. When Alice first suggested I look at the myth as an elegy about the end of a way of knowing fueled by the Female Spirit , it filled the holes in my understanding of the myth like water running into a rice field
7. When I looked at it that way, I saw that Alice had been exactly correct: the myth was an elegy
8. In some sense then, this myth is not just an elegy for preliterate consciousness, but also an elegy for decline of the Female Spirit
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10. José ZORRILLA (1817-1893) first won fame by the readingof an elegy at the burial of Larra
11. Elegy: Young lost wine, a ruined kid with hell to pay, for being the child of a comic goat
12. It can properly be rendered the 'grave’ only where that word is taken, as in Gray's Elegy, to include the state of departed souls
13. Yet five minutes after she had passed the statue of Achilles she had the rapt look of one brushing through crowds on a summer's afternoon, when the trees are rustling, the wheels churning yellow, and the tumult of the present seems like an elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a curious sadness, as if time and eternity showed through skirts and waistcoasts, and she saw people passing tragically to destruction
14. There was a certain mood of elegy, those first few months after
15. Keith wonders if somewhere back in the Lamplighter family tree are some Slavs, because it calls to him, this elegy, if that’s what it is
16. , according as the wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X
17. This is the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by Andre Chenier, by Andre Chenier whose throat was cut by the ras
18. After the champagne toast on the day he took over the post, the old lion in retirement excused himself for speaking without getting up from the rocker, and he improvised a brief speech that seemed more like an elegy
19. ) “Half-Christ and half-goat,” Steinbeck summed him up in his 1951 elegy “About Ed Ricketts,” itself an exercise in paradox, selective memory, and impressionism
20. 'The idea of this long fragment,' Chénier says, 'has been supplied me by a fine piece of Propertius, book iv, elegy 3;' and he proceeds to state that he has not servilely copied it, but, 'according to his wont,' mixed in it passages from Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and everything that came to his hand, and frequently, too, 'following only himself
21. A child of Mme Laurent Lecoulteux, who, living at Lucienne, was often visited by André Chénier during his stay at Versailles in 1793, and sung by him under the name of Fanny; only a fragment of the elegy is here given
22. To her an elegy composed
23. Then they played more, at the request of the guests,—first an elegy by Ernst, and then various other pieces
24. The sky was heavy and dark; down from it swept incessantly scarcely visible drops of rain, and the melancholy elegy in nature all around me was emphasised by a couple of battered and misshapen willow-trees and a boat, bottom upwards, that was fastened to their roots