| 单词 | gnomic poet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgnomic poet a. Of the nature of, or consisting of, gnomes or general maxims. Also spec. with reference to Old English verse. gnomic poet, a composer of gnomic verses. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective] sententiala1475 sententious1542 topic1581 apophthegmatical?1589 topical1594 adagial1647 aphoristical1661 gnomonic1706 axiomatical1738 gnomologic1751 aphoristic1753 maximical1779 apophthegmatic1796 aphorismic1798 gnomic1815 aphorismatic1822 axiomatic1835 maximic1854 aphorismical1880 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > gnomic poet(s) gnomograph1564 gnomographera1620 the gnomics1821 gnomic poet1873 gnomist1874 1815 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 257 Some gnomic verses from Bishop Ken. 1826 W. D. Conybeare in J. J. Conybeare Illustr. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 205 Another gnomic poem..concludes by tracing the origin of discord to the homicide of Cain. 1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 130 In Aeschylus, the poetical faculty developed itself in grandeur;..in Euripides, in gnomic wisdom, sententious philosophy. 1842 B. Thorpe Codex Exoniensis p. viii The ‘Gnomic Verses’ are, as their title imports, a string of proverbial sentences. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxix. 110 Amidst the multifarious veins in which Archilochus displayed his genius, moralising or gnomic poetry is not wanting. 1871 H. Sweet in W. C. Hazlitt Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 18 The curious poem, Salomon and Saturn, consists also of a variety of gnomic sentences, mixed..with a variety of other matter. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets iii. 65 Gnomic poets are simply those who embody γνῶμαι or sententious maxims on life and morals in their verse. 1882 A. W. Ward Dickens ii. 25 The fashion of Sam's gnomic philosophy is at least as old as Theocritus. 1914 B. C. Williams Gnomic Poetry in Anglo-Saxon 6 Anglo-Saxon verse is gnomic so far as the presence of gnomic lines here and there adds sententiousness. 1948 K. Malone in A. C. Baugh Lit. Hist. Eng. i. i. iii. 26 One might have expected to find end-stopping used a good deal in the gnomic verses. < as lemmas |
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