pindaric

Kildare, the favourite sister of Sir William Temple, had been described by Swift in early pindaric verses as “wise and great.”

The Journal to Stella 2003

My preface to the Dernieres Chansons has aroused in Madame Colet a pindaric fury.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

She wrote a long pindaric Ode on the Spleen, which was printed in a miscellany in 1701, and was her first introduction to the public.

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

Gray's _Bard_, a pindaric, in which the last survivor of the Welsh bards invokes vengeance on {195} Edward I., the destroyer of his guild.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

The irregular pindaric ode was now abandoned to Arwaker, Behn, Durfey, and a few inferior authors; who either from its tempting facility of execution, or from an affected admiration of old times and fashions, still pestered the public with imitations of Cowley.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

Some part of this deviation was, perhaps, owing to the nature of the stanza; for the structure of the quatrain prohibited the bard, who used it, from rambling into those digressive similes, which, in the pindaric strophe, might be pursued through endless ramifications.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

My preface to the Dernieres Chansons has aroused in Madame Colet a pindaric fury.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850

'And freedom shriek'd when Kosciusko fell,' was taken from a much-ridiculed piece by Dennis, a pindaric on William

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Some part of this deviation was, perhaps, owing to the nature of the stanza; for the structure of the quatrain prohibited the bard, who used it, from rambling into those digressive similes, which, in the pindaric strophe, might be pursued through endless ramifications.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801

Dryden was unable to discover the wit and the satirist in the clouds of incomprehensible pindaric obscurity in which he was enveloped; and the aged bard pronounced the hasty, and never to be pardoned sentence, --

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801