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Definition of Purple passage
1. Noun. A passage full of ornate and flowery language.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Passage
Literary usage of Purple passage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. James Shirley, Dramatist: A Biographical and Critical Study by Arthur Huntington Nason (1915)
"Now this is not a "purple passage" but a group of lines that, in most respects,
is thoroughly representative of the play throughout. It is not great poetry; ..."
2. Vergilius Redivivus: Studies In Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry by Estelle Haan (2005)
"... is that these lines constituted in Addison's eyes a Virgilian purple passage.
The Barometri Descriptio reinvents and remolds key aspects of that passage ..."
3. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"There are no purple passages in machine toil, but if the spending of $i80 in two
hours is n'ta purple passage, then I 'd like to know what is. ..."
4. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"There are no purple passages in machine toil, but if the spending of $180 in two
hours is n'ta purple passage, then I 'd like to know what is. ..."
5. The Metre of Macbeth: Its Relation to Shakespeare's Earlier and Later Work by David Laurance Chambers (1903)
"... example of the metre of this period, all the more typical perhaps because it
is in no sense a " purple" passage. Cornelius. [Presenting a small box. ..."
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