Lexicographical Neighbors of Travestied
Literary usage of Travestied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1810)
"Thus a grave and serious poem may be most successfully travestied into ...
Aristophanes has travestied many verses in the works of the Greecian tragedians. ..."
2. The Romance of the American Theatre by Mary Caroline Crawford (1913)
"terrible, is travestied on the stage, but in Mrs. Kemble's hands it is what it
was meant to be, wild, weird, appalling." Apropos of which may be quoted an ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"some notion which he has borrowed and travestied from his next neighbour, and
which either youth or the perpetual immaturity of an unreflecting nature ..."
4. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1848)
"He travestied some part of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which he entitled L'Ovide en
Belle Humeur. He wrote his own adventures in three volumes, and some other ..."
5. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1902)
"... VIRGIL travestied. Two little morsels may serve as specimens of the once
famous '' Travesty of Virgil.'' In the first Dido confesses to her sister her ..."
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