Epigrams

This is not to suggest that Boris is in any straightforward sense a throwback to an earlier era in Tory politics, when members of Harold Macmillan's cabinet would amuse themselves by composing extemporaneous Latin epigrams.

A few other so-called epigrams share this quality.

By no means do all Greek epigrams behave this way; many are simply descriptive.

Dorothy Parker 's one-liners can be considered epigrams, as can Macdonald Carey 's statement, "like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives".

Elegiac verses appear, for example, in Petronius ' Satyricon, and Martial 's Epigrams uses it for many witty stand-alone couplets and for longer pieces.

Epigrams are sometimes particularly pointed or much-quoted quotations taken from longer works.

Furthermore, the play is full of epigrams and paradoxes.

However, in the literary world, epigrams were most often gifts to patrons or entertaining verse to be published, not inscriptions.

In 1542 Michelangelo met Cecchino dei Bracci who died only a year later, inspiring Michelangelo to write forty-eight funeral epigrams.

J. V. Cunningham was also a noted writer of epigrams, (a medium suited to a 'short-breathed' person).

Many authors have cited proverbs as epigrams at the beginning of their articles, e.g. "'If you want to dismantle a hedge, remove one thorn at a time' Somali proverb" in an article on peacemaking in Somalia.

Many extant ostraka show that it was possible to write expletives, short epigrams or cryptic injunctions beside the name of the candidate without invalidating the vote. see Surikov, pp. 73–80, and references therein.

Now freed from "living up to any drama more serious than conversation" Wilde could now amuse himself to a fuller extent with quips, bons-mots, epigrams and repartee that really had little to do with the business at hand.

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : citation An epigram by Samuel Sheppard, from Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick (1651) runs thus: :Virgula divina.

Oscar Wilde 's witticisms such as "I can resist everything except temptation" are considered epigrams.

Roman epigrams, however, were often more satirical than Greek ones, and at times used obscene language for effect.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem (with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

The condemnatory poems are short and anonymous; Jonson’s epigrams of praise, including a famous poem to Camden and lines to Lucy Harington, are longer and are mostly addressed to specific individuals.

The first work of English literature penned in North America was Robert Hayman's Quodlibets, Lately Come Over from New Britaniola, Old Newfoundland, which is a collection of over 300 epigrams, many of which do not conform to the two-line rule or trend.

Theodore himself was a pivotal figure in the revival of classical literary forms, in particular iambic verse, in Byzantium, and his criticisms of the iconoclastic epigrams drew a connection between literary skill and orthodox faith.