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Many of them lacked seriousness, dealing mainly with delicate fancies and trivial incidents, but pleasures of the intellect and taste became the fashion. Burlesques and chansons disputed the palm with madrigals and sonnets. A neatly turned epigram or a clever letter made a social success. Perhaps it was not a school for genius of the first order.
ELEGY AND EPIGRAM. Until the beginning of the seventh century B.C., the epic was the only kind of poetry cultivated in Greece, with the exception of the early songs and hymns, and the hexameter the only metre used by the poets. This exclusive prevalence of epic poetry was doubtless connected with the political state of the country.
Lloyd George, his supplanter, he has lost the earnestness which brought him to the seats of power. A domestic circle, brilliant with the modern spirit and much occupied in sharpening the wits with epigram and audacity, has proved too much for his original stoicism. He has found recreation in the modern spirit.
All the cynics and epigram makers in the world agree that love ends with marriage, and this not only in modern times but even back into those days of the French Court of Love, when Margaret de Valois decided that the lover had more claims than the husband. Romance dies with marriage is the plaint of poet and novelists; the charm of woman disappears with her mystery, with possession.
A pedant's little boy having died, many friends came to the funeral, on seeing whom he said, "I am ashamed to bring out so small a boy to so great a crowd." An epigram in the Anthologia may find a place among noodle stories: "A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And, chuckling, cried, 'Now you can't see to bite!" This ancient jest has been somewhat improved in later times.
I have traced him among the French epigrammatists, and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure authors. The "Thief and Cordelier" is, I suppose, generally considered as an original production, with how much justice this epigram may tell, which was written by Georgius Sabinus, a poet now little known or read, though once the friend of Luther and Melancthon:
Fenton was in a mood when he fancied he was talking well, a conviction which was not always an accurate measure of the real worth of his remarks. He delighted in presenting half truths in forcible phraseology, relishing the taste of an epigram quite without reference to its verity.
She was pleased to see him. Their common fund of scandal and epigram would carry them safely over a cheerful hour. "And as to the good old firm of Carshaw prosperous as usual, I hope," said Meiklejohn, balancing an egg-shell tea-cup. Mrs. Carshaw shrugged. "I don't know much about it," she said, "but I sometimes hear talk of bad times and lack of capital. I suppose it is all right.
"That is as radically true as it is epigrammatic," blurted I. "And truth is more than epigram?" "One should delight in truth; I do delight in epigram; there seems little chance for choice here." It seemed to me that I had said quite what I wished there, but she only looked at me enigmatically.
Indeed, he was so teased by Ptolemy for not being able to answer it, that he got up and left the room. He afterwards wrote a book upon the subject; but the ridicule was said to have embittered the rest of his life. This was the person against whom Callimachus, some years later, wrote a bitter epigram, beginning "Cronus is a wise man."
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