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Egypt seems to have been the birthplace of the mournful elegy, and Callimachus was the chief of the elegiac poets.
He died at the age of thirty-five, and was lamented by his more poetical fellow citizens in elegiac strains.
THE HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY, VOL. V (OF 6)LUIGI ANTONIO LANZI
Elegiac Verse has commonly been adopted by German poets for their elegies, but by English poets never.
In classic poetry what is known as elegiac verse is composed of couplets consisting of alternate hexameter and pentameter lines.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIAVARIOUS
Among these the Elegiac verse of the ancients (hexameter alternating with pentameter) was attempted by Sidney in his Arcadia.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH VERSIFICATIONJAKOB SCHIPPER
Corot alone has painted such things, but where he is joyous Cazin is elegiac.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 3 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHER
Usually Handel imparts to the cello either an amorous desire or an elegiac consolation.
HANDELROMAIN ROLLAND
He subsequently addressed an elegiac poem to the king, asking pardon and pleading for release.
This the Greeks knew, mingling mirth with melancholy, and love with sadness, their sweetest songs with elegiac melodies.
STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS (VOL II OF 2)JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
When she died, the town went into mourning, and the streets echoed with elegiac lamentations.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: ITALIAN LITERATUREJOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
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