How To Use Creon In A Sentence
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Then snatching up some of the flowers, which ornamented the table, he swore that Juba should henceforward be called Anacreon, and that he deserved to be crowned with roses by the hand of beauty.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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I am [3] the daughter of Menœceus, and Creon my brother was born of the same mother; me they call Jocasta (for this name [4] my father gave me), and
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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Creon stood up and leaned against the ash tree and folded his arms.
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Anacreon", written during this time, had to be performed in the small Theatre de la Foire Saint-Germain (where he directed the performances from 1789-1792) because the grand opera house was closed to him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The deuteragonist could have played the nurse, Jason, and messenger, with the tritagonist playing the tutor, Creon, and Aegeus.
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This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different.
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Her breathily sexy aria with Creonte (an excellent Iestyn Davies) was one of several show-stoppers.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
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My first act, in music strongly characterized, was Tasso; the second in tender harmony, Ovid; and the third, entitled Anacreon, was to partake of the gayety of the dithyrambus.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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Shakespeare's last two sonnets are variations on an anacreontic epigram from The Greek Anthology.
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Two weeks ago an Anacreonian merchant ship came across a derelict battle cruiser of the old Imperial navy.
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Constantinople had given him a taste for Anacreontic singing, and female society of the questionable kind, a love of strong waters, — the hypocrite looked positively scandalised when I first suggested the subject, — and an off-hand latitudinarian mode of dealing with serious subjects in general.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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When Creon kidnaps Antigone, the Chorus prays that Athene will aid King Theseus in bringing her back safely.
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To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics, or paraphrastical translations of some little poems, which pass, however justly, under the name of Anacreon.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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I had composed a good number of so - called Anacreontic poems, which, on account of the convenience of the metre, and the lightness of the subject, flowed forth readily enough.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
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There is something of the metaphysical about this, and I can't get Abraham Cowley's second Anacreontic, "Drinking", out of my head when I read it.
Rain by Don Paterson
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{442a} Graphic illustrations of the attitude of Ronsard and his friends to a Greek poet like Anacreon appear in _Anacreon et les Poemes anacreontiques_, _Texte grec avec les Traductions et Imitations des
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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‘Witty things, and occasionally Anacreontic: and they have the originality which such a style must naturally possess when carried out by a feminine hand,’ said Ladywell.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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The poem is set to the music of the British tune, To Anacreon in Heaven.
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Tomlinson wrote the poetry of the Anacreontic song, which Stafford Smith set to music.
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Your Anacreon is a very uncommon book; neither London nor Cambridge can supply a copy of that edition.
Life Of Johnson
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Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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Lessing's first publication was a volume of Anacreontics, as was Goethe's.
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The whimsical drunk given to the occasional half-rhymed, fireside anacreontic is a pretty poor relation of the poet.
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Late in life Broome returned to Greek poetry and published a verse translation of sixteen Anacreontics in several instalments in the Gentleman's Magazine.
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Creon and jockey Timmy Murphy sneaked up the inside to overcome GVA Ireland and win the Pertemps Final.
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Lovelace, Alexander Brome, and Edward Sherburne also composed anacreontics.
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[1] I admire the _first_ sincerely, and in turn call upon you to _admire_ the following on Anacreon Moore's new operatic farce, [2] or farcical opera -- call it which you will:
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
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We nevertheless remained a long time at table, where Lebrun recited to us several odes of "Anacreon," which he had translated, and I think I never spent a more amusing evening.
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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And, indeed, they showed the greatest emulation to outvie each other; especially Nicocreon, king of Salamis, and
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Consequently, he sentences her to a gruesome death - despite the fact that she is betrothed to Creon's son, her cousin.
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Among the _Port Folio_ gentlemen who may have met "Anacreon" Moore, and who were Dennie's faithful coadjutors, were John Blair Linn, John Shaw,
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
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Realizing that the Theban king has made a terrible mistake after speaking to Teiresias, Creon unseals the cave too late to save the girl.
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With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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At times the members of certain social clubs gave in these rooms subscription balls of anacreontic tendencies, the feminine element of which was recruited among the popular gay favorites of the period.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Stesichoriue graues Camenae: nec siquid olim lusit Anacreon deleuit aetas; spirat adhuc amor10
Song Makes Immortal
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Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?
The Physiology of Marriage, Complete
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In a world that was hostile to their practices and beliefs, the Anacreontic tradition will have given them a more sympathetic imaginary home.
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The Anacreontic poems were later discovered to have been composed by a number of poets over seven centuries.
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It gives me pleasure to draw the picture of those ideal amours which every warm-blooded youth of twenty has at one time or other cherished in his thoughts; to substitute virginal charms and graces for vice and harlotry -- and after the manner of those charming heathen poets who have so often filled our dreams with their fancies, to mingle the anacreontic with the idyllic.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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Sphinx: ‘But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys.’
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The word of the yesterday, according to my beloved AWAD, is anacreontic, and it means “celebrating love and drinking.”
The downside of success
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I began by reading aloud an anacreontic, adding to its beauties by the modulation of my voice, and keenly enjoying her pleasure at finding her work so fair.
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He is the most fluent, imaginative poet of the eighteenth century and is especially successful in the pastoral and anacreontic styles.
Modern Spanish Lyrics
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Instead, Creon is guilty of a religious sin by denying burial to a dead man's body.
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Printed sources of "The Anacreontic Song," the drinking song that supplied the tune, are in triple meter, as are other, pre - "Banner" songs that use the tune (such as "Adams and Liberty").
Full measures of devotion
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To the miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques, or paraphrastical translations of some little poems, which pass, however justly, under the name of Anacreon.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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‘Written, I presume you mean, in the Anacreontic measure of three feet and a half — spondees and iambics?’ said a gentleman in spectacles, glancing round, and giving emphasis to his inquiry by causing bland glares of a circular shape to proceed from his glasses towards the person interrogated.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him.
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He seems to have enjoyed to the full the gay and easy life of a courtier, and sung so voluptuously of love and wine and festivity that the term "Anacreontic" has come to be used to characterize all poetry over - redolent of these themes.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honored and Polynices disgraced.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The peculiar verse of Skelton, styled _skeltonical_, is a sort of English anacreontic.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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The Anacreontic Song" became popular in the U.S., and after Francis Scott Key composed his 1814 poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry," his brother-in-law saw that the poem would go nicely with the "Anacreontic" melody.
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
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Although Polyneices is next in line to rule Thebes, Eteocles claims the throne for himself with the support of Creon and exiles his brother.
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Whereas constant or unrequited love had long remained the favourite subject of courtly chanson, more anacreontic, carnal, or satirical themes are exploited in the narrative anecdotes of Marot and his contemporaries.
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Further, Act I introduces two occasions for incest, not one: the consummated incest of Oedipus and Jocasta, mother-son incest; and the potential, though ultimately unperformed, incest between Creon and Eurydice, uncle-niece incest.
