anacreontic
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With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
His sideboard is still here, his heavy table remains in the middle of the room, and the famous skull, mounted as a drinking-cup and inscribed with the familiar anacreontic, is carefully preserved.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
Here he lay in the grass, composed and sang his anacreontic songs, and here, in the summer-time, his annual festival is held.
From Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
The peculiar verse of Skelton, styled skeltonical, is a sort of English anacreontic.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
No anacreontic thoughts came to me, I assure you, nor any disposition to rhyme in ette, herbette, filette, coudrette.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
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