Augustan

Example Sentences

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Pope’s Homer read like Homer when it was published, although the idea of reading ancient Greek verse in strict rhymed couplets seems to us a brilliant Augustan period piece.

From The New Yorker

The Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession, a German-speaking Protestant group, said Tuesday that marriage was clearly defined in civil law.

From Seattle Times

Apart from the history that Gibbon narrates — one that should be of interest to Americans right now, I’d say — I’m just knocked over by the prose: those fabulous, architectural, Augustan sentences are dazzling.

From New York Times

In the 18th century — the so-called Augustan age of English literature — Virgil was, if anything, even more deeply cherished.

From Washington Post

It was commonplace in Augustan England of the 18th century to refer to Virgil, Ovid, or Plutarch.

From The Guardian