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Definition of Monodies
1. monody [n] - See also: monody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monodies
Literary usage of Monodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"III DUETS AND monodies ARISTOPHANES' CRITICISM OF EURIPIDES' LYRICS WE have
considered the lyrics sung in the orchestra, and must now examine the songs of ..."
2. The Literary Study of the Bible: An Account of the Leading Forms of by Richard Green Moulton (1899)
"... the experience is narrated, sometimes it is even presented with the realistic
power that belongs to drama. Among the monodies of experience psalms ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"monodies. ON HIS MOTHER. 1759. AH, scenes beloved! ah, conscious shades, That
wave these parent-vales along! Ye bowers where Fancy met the tuneful maids, ..."
4. The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a by Rossiter Johnson (1903)
"... as in one of William Motherwell's monodies: When I beneath the cold, red earth
am sleeping, Life's fever o'er, Will there for me be any bright eye ..."
5. The Works of John Moore, M. D.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by John Moore (1820)
"... a stronger illustration, ' your own eloquence is scarcely more powerful to
rouse and animate, than his drowsy monodies are to benumb the senses. ..."
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