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- noun Plural form of
ode .
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Examples
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Our interest in Gray's Romanticism must confine itself to the two odes from the Old Norse.
The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Conrad Hjalmar Nordby 1883
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Gradually the scrubbles. net m.o. changed from quickie “look what I found” link-based posts to longer, more thoughtful pieces (well, as thoughtful as 400-word odes to junk food and junkier television shows can get).
Seven Years of Unpigeonholeable Tomfoolery : Scrubbles.net 2007
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Gradually the scrubbles. net m.o. changed from quickie “look what I found” link-based posts to longer, more thoughtful pieces (well, as thoughtful as 400-word odes to junk food and junkier television shows can get).
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Besides these he wrote many dramas in verse, a number of translations, and some shorter poems, of which the odes are the most remarkable.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906
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The odes are the most familiar of Anacreon's odes, however, and no one could think of moral obliquity in connection with Boito's use of them.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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& MA or DD after my name my odes would meet with commendation were I to publish them unowned unpuffed & unassisted they would go to the grocers shops. poor Chatterton!
Letter 42 1792
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Examples of the more demanding kinds of classical poems, such as odes, were less frequent among human - ists because of their metrical difficulties.
HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968
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Canada's top filmmakers create iconoclastic, personal film "odes" to their hometowns, capturing a cosmopolitan picture of contemporary Canada.
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If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?
Poetry 2010
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Of course, it's not hard to best "Tardy for the Party" or either of the Countess' throaty odes to her high-class life, and yes, it's sweet that a portion of the proceeds will benefit an after-school youth program in Chicago.
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