Plutarchian

In the Plutarchian method there was ever a snare, and I have come near treading in it.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

The Plutarchian stoic, its author, went from Paris in a court coach, but his Roman tone deserted him, and he felt shamefaced as a schoolboy before the great world, such divinity doth hedge even a Lewis XV., and even in a soul of Genevan temper.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

The constant thought of Paris gave Rousseau an admirable occasion of painting two pictures in violent contrast, each as over-coloured as the other by his mixed conceptions of the Plutarchian antique and imaginary pastoral.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

Above all his ideal was revolutionised, and the recent dreams of Plutarchian heroism, of grandeur, of palaces, princesses, and a glorious career full in the world's eye, were replaced by a new conception of blessedness of life, which never afterwards faded from his vision, and which has held a front place in the imagination of literary Europe ever since.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

Under certain circumstances this vindication and ennoblement might act as an incitement to an actual assassination as well as to Plutarchian republicanism; for it is one thing to advocate republicanism or royalism: it is quite another to make a hero of Brutus or Ravaillac, or a heroine of Charlotte Corday.

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet George Bernard Shaw 1903

He has the soul of a Plutarchian hero, and where two ways present themselves, the most natural is for him the most heroic.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

What could be better for his purpose than a daring conspiracy, led by a Plutarchian hero who was at the same time a single-minded patriot?

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

In that respect Theodore Hook is Paul's Plutarchian parallel, though he has more literature and less life.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

In fact, though a sort of pseudo-Plutarchian parallel between them is nearly as inevitable as it is common, it is a parallel almost entirely composed of differences, carried out in matter almost incommensurable.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

A parallel in the Plutarchian manner between Bacon and Raleigh would in many ways be pleasant, but only one point of it concerns us here, -- that both had been happier and perhaps had done greater things had they been simple men of letters.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889