anacreontic
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A flower-stand filled with roses best pleases the majority of women, who cultivate a love of flowers in order to provoke anacreontic and obsolete comparisons from their antiquated admirers.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
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
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
Toast, sentiment, and anacreontic song, succeeded each other at speedy intervals; but there was no speechifying—no politics.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
