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Definition of Elegiacs
1. elegiac [n] - See also: elegiac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegiacs
Literary usage of Elegiacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Bishop William's memorial elegiacs on the date of the primate's assassination
are to be found in one manuscript of the ' Chronicle of Ger- vase of ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"The Rhymester, muling in City Slums, indulges in elegiacs concerning possible
Elysia for the City Children. " The value of (mall open «paces in ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... Between them [in the poll] and us [in the honour-Hits] there is a great gulf
fixed," etc. elegiacs. (. ..."
4. English Metrists by Thomas Stewart Omond (1903)
"Except some juvenile "leonine elegiacs," Tennyson published no other quasi-Classic
verse, though "The Daisy," "To FD Maurice," and other poems are modelled ..."
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