Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigrammatism
Literary usage of Epigrammatism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen (1906)
"... or something that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased
delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"... to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style. She did not perceive,
perhaps, how the story gains in gravity and quiet when it comes to the ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... or something that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased
delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style! ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Extreme brevity will degenerate into epigrammatism; but the sin of extreme length
is even more unpardonable. ..."
5. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"The epigrammatism of her conclusions gives to her poems, as wholes, the air of
being more skilfully constructed than they really are. On the other hand, ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"... which for genuine epigrammatism are scarcely inferior to some of the best of
Piron and Talleyrand. ' I meant, your Honor, to be understood,' was the ..."
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