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How to use Horatian in a sentence

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Unlike Pindarics, the Horatian ode tends to be meditative, tranquil, and colloquial.
Jonson, influenced as ever by the Horatian paradigms, adopts and adapts these literalist interpretations of the myth to his own dramatic ends.
We have already remarked that such a distancing accords with the speaker's Horatian stance.
These contradictions and their maskings appear in the history of the Horatian text itself.
Forrest-Thomson endorses a rhetorical expression, by Geoffrey Hartman, of the same Horatian and Yeatsian tropes.
The latter fail to decipher the real meaning of the Horatian maxim which Titus attaches to the gift.
Paradise Lost and Pope's Horatian Essay on Criticism were written in English.
In a conventional Horatian ode, the next stanza would present the Stoic alternative.
As for Thatcher, Stothard has perfected the Horatian art of not quite seeing.
He has gone, one might say, from explicator to gnostic namer, from the secular, discursive Horatian thinker-poet to a more compressed priest-like voice, intent on Mystery.
Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.
He was also a master of the chant royal and infused some Horatian wit into the old forms of the ballade and the rondeau.
He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
She works consistently in the Horatian tradition, taking on the world from a fixed rural place and deriving maximal resonance from the organic mapping of small to large.
At the Horatian end of the spectrum, satire merges imperceptibly into comedy, which has an abiding interest in human follies but has not satire's reforming intent.
Pindaric odes are to be written with fire and passion, unlike the calmer and more reflective Horatian odes such as Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College.
Examples from Classical Literature
Ever afterwards these sacrifices were performed by members of the Horatian clan.
It was bipartite, and rather on the incongruous principle discountenanced in the Horatian Epistle to the Pisos.
The evening was passed, as Claude had promised, in a truly Horatian manner.
It is no doubt rather unfortunate that Flatman should have left us so many Horatian translations.
Their compositions are of the Horatian and Shakspearian sort.
The depredators in the meantime had adopted the Horatian style of battle.
Marston is praised as a Horatian satirist and Jonson as a talented writer of tragedies.
Still another, minor, innovation of Wyatt was the introduction into English verse of the Horatian 'satire' in the form of three metrical letters to friends.
As such, the letter turns into an eloquent and elegant reworking of the classic Horatian and Virgilian theme of the superiority of rural over urban culture.
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