Epic

(adj.) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); 'an epic voyage'; 'of heroic proportions'; 'heroic sculpture' .

(adj.) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; 'epic tradition' .

录入:丽贝卡

• Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A passion, which is disagreeable in real life, may afford the highest entertainment in a tragedy, or epic poem. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• That was an epic struggle, well worth the recording. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Epic poem--ten thousand lines-- revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night--bang the field-piece, twang the lyre. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Milton in his day doubted whether an epic poem was any longer possible. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What we need to know about the Christian epic is the effect it had on men--true or false, they have believed in it for nineteen centuries. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Imitation, then, is devoid of knowledge, being only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic and epic poets are imitators in the highest degree. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They have consequently no epics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As Greece had her epics and so forth, the Romans felt that they too must have their epics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The main Greek epics were reduced to writing, and the text of the chief ones put in its present order in the time of the tyrant Peisistratus (_i. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But let us return now to the history preserved for us in the Aryan epics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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