"Gnomical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... memory of my beloved master, William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us." to mention only these. Nor can the earlier "Epode," beginning "Not to know vice at all," be matched in stately gravity and gnomic wisdom in its own wise and ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson
... one and to another. We let them group themselves casually, as they will, in their random way, writing their own gnomic hieroglyphics, in their own immense and primeval language, as the earth-mothers heave them up from the abyss or draw them down; but we are no more confined to ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... dialogue, without narrative— (1) Dialogues in the common epic measure—Balder's Doom, Dialogues of Sigurd, Angantyr—explanations in prose, between the dialogues 112 (2) Dialogues in the gnomic or elegiac measure: (a) vituperative debates—Lokasenna, Harbarzli (in irregular verse), Atli and Rimgerd 112 (b) Dialogues implying action—The ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker
... unconscious morality is represented by the times of Homer, Hesiod, the Gnomic poets, and "the Seven ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker |
