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Meanings of epos in English
Synonyms
Examples for "epic"
Examples for "epic"
1
Which American Civil War epic is concerned concerns the plantation at Tara?
2
Woolworths has just dropped an epic list of 60 new festive products.
3
The novel is an often disturbing, often funny and always epic work.
4
In the epic, all the strength of Çiva lies in the Linga.
5
She decided he was the right author to finish Jordan's epic work.
1
He was the author of an epic poem on the Punic war.
2
The beginning of an epic poem flashed with tumult through his blood.
3
But I could no more write a romance than an epic poem.
4
Much like Homer's epic poem, the ending is ultimately a satisfying one.
5
I closed my eyes to remember that part of the epic poem.
1
The heroic poem of my friend was a voucher for this remark.
2
Therefore they are either not faults in an heroic poem, or faults common to the drama.
3
But after all these advantages an heroic poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature.
4
Carlyle says: "No life of a man faithfully recorded but is a heroic poem."
5
To do otherwise than so, would be like making an heroic poem a man's first attempt.
Usage of epos in English
1
The epos is the calm quiet representation of an action in progress.
2
His metres approach more nearly to the epos than those of Aleman.
3
She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.
4
But the epos, as a whole, had never found its poet.
5
No remains have been preserved of these -incunabula- of the Roman epos and drama.
6
The method of the drama is his, as well as the method of the epos.
7
The Finnic epos of "Kalewala" is a curious illustration of the same fact.
8
Therefore it is that the epos of suffering requires not merely time for its accomplishment, but also space.
9
The higher kinds of literature-suchas epos, tragedy, history-havedied out or have been arrested in their development.
10
The man towered over them in his shabby velvets, declaiming his latest epos in his rich, sonorous voice.
11
Under such dry light as it offers to our intelligence the whole epos of Christianity seems a vapid dream.
12
The Vedas and the Homeric epos set before us a world of rich and vigorous life, full of joyous fighting men
13
Mr. Tennyson had been employed on higher, more truly divine, and yet more truly human work than either epos or drama.
14
Naevius sought out for the new subject a new form; Ennius fitted or forced it into the forms of the Hellenic epos.
15
In our day, mention of the pre-computer age evokes chiefly the splendid epos wherein our poets illustrate the evolution of the world.
16
We are compensated for the loss of this prose work by at least the epos of Ferdausi which has issued from it.
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Epos through the time