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Assuming ode is required, the following 6 results were found.

  • ANTISTROPHEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTISTROPHE

    is also used in Lyric Poetry, in respect of an Ode, which is usually divided into the Strophe, Antistrophe, and Epode. See ODE. The Antistrophe is a kind of Echo, or Replication to the Strophe; and the Epode a launching out from them both. See STROPHE...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANACREONTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANACREONTIC

    was famous for the Delicacy of his Wit; and the exquisite, yet easy and natural, turn of his Poetry.—We have several of his Odes still extant; and few of the modern Poets, but have Anacreontics in Imitation hereof. They are most of them composed in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Poetry

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    to do; and the less, as those Arts are in greater Purity and Perfection. Thus it is in Poetry; a Man that would undertake an Ode, or an Epic Poem on the strength of his Reason, would be miserably out: All his Efforts would never carry him above the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Wit, &c. Its Operations, Retention, Reflection, Association, Abstraction, &c. Its Perceptions, as Substance, Accident, Mode, &c. Relations, as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ALCAICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALCAICKS

    second an Iambic;the third a long Syllable; the fourth a Dactyl; the fifth a Dactyl or Amphimacer: As these of Horace, Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium Versatur urna, serius, ocius Sors exitura, —Besides these two Kinds of Verses, which are called Alcaick...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Poetry

  • ARCHILOQUIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ARCHILOQUIAN

    It is usual to mix iambic verses of six feet, abating a syllable, with Archiloquian verses; as Horace himself has done in the ode now cited. These verses are also called dactylic, on account of the dactyls at the beginning. See DACTYL and DACTYLIC....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Poetry
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