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Meanings of epos in английском

португальский
epopéia
каталонский
poema èpic
испанский
epos
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A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.

        epopéia
        Usage of epos in английском
        1
        The epos is the calm quiet representation of an action in progress.
        Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
        2
        His metres approach more nearly to the epos than those of Aleman.
        Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
        3
        She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.
        Middlemarch
        4
        But the epos, as a whole, had never found its poet.
        A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
        5
        No remains have been preserved of these -incunabula- of the Roman epos and drama.
        The History of Rome, Book I / The Period Anterior to the Aboliti...
        6
        The method of the drama is his, as well as the method of the epos.
        Intentions
        7
        The Finnic epos of "Kalewala" is a curious illustration of the same fact.
        Among My Books. First Series
        8
        Therefore it is that the epos of suffering requires not merely time for its accomplishment, but also space.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
        9
        The higher kinds of literature-suchas epos, tragedy, history-havedied out or have been arrested in their development.
        The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
        10
        The man towered over them in his shabby velvets, declaiming his latest epos in his rich, sonorous voice.
        Casket of Souls
        11
        Under such dry light as it offers to our intelligence the whole epos of Christianity seems a vapid dream.
        Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; a...
        12
        The Vedas and the Homeric epos set before us a world of rich and vigorous life, full of joyous fighting men
        Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
        13
        Mr. Tennyson had been employed on higher, more truly divine, and yet more truly human work than either epos or drama.
        Literary and General Lectures and Essays
        14
        Naevius sought out for the new subject a new form; Ennius fitted or forced it into the forms of the Hellenic epos.
        The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
        15
        In our day, mention of the pre-computer age evokes chiefly the splendid epos wherein our poets illustrate the evolution of the world.
        The End of Man?
        16
        We are compensated for the loss of this prose work by at least the epos of Ferdausi which has issued from it.
        Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
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        португальский
        epopéia
        каталонский
        poema èpic
        Epos through the time