pindarics

Updated: May 21, 2025

'I made regular approaches to her by sonnets and rebusses a rondeau of circumvallation her pride sapped by an elegy, and her reserve surprised by an impromptu proceeding to storm with Pindarics, she, at last, saved the further effusion of ink by a capitulation.

Thomas Moore - Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01

And then in Bowles, with his sonnets of places, in Sayers, with his rhymeless Pindarics, we come upon the actual guides to the right way, guides the oddest, the blindest, the most stumbling, but still as not merely chronology but the positive testimony and the still more positive practice of those who followed them show real guides and no misleaders.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)