Augustan

How To Use Augustan In A Sentence

• The Augustan age of English literature includes the writers Dryden, Swift and Pope.
• The Augustanera sculpture of a life-size male in a toga was secured on a foam-covered wooden frame to cushion its rescue.
• Augustan History.] 153 There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews: — Ite ait, O juvenes, pariter sudate medullis The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Instead, Gove's eccentric emphasis on a pair of Augustans who are commonly reserved for abler undergraduates suggests that his project for English literature is as instrumentalist as his retro, kings-and-queens version of history. Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren
• The object chosen as find of the week is nothing else than an Augustan half-capital with adjoining smooth half-column (see left picture), which must have projected 0.35 m from the antae (projecting side walls) on the front of the pronaos. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008
• Debbie has some fine Augustan echoes: rolling decasyllabic lines though with impish breaks that propel semantic leaps, as in the first few lines! Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson
• He was a mighty builder and splendid adorner of cities; all that remained unsystematized in the Augustan system, he reduced to perfect system and order. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• As it is almost excluded that nothing of a potential Augustan peripteros was preserved, one has to reconstruct the Augustan Temple of Apollo Klarios as a simple naos of which the facade of the pronaos was shaped as a pseudo-peripteral naos (this means with attached half-columns instead of free standing ones) with smooth half-columns projecting from the antae and fluted half-column on either side of the door, all columns being crowned by Ionic half-capitals. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Find of the Week 1 - 2008
• Augustan ideals may retroactively remold the character and ambition of such figures as the Trojan Aeneas, but it is difficult to find in the Roman attitude toward Greek culture anything comparable to the humanist ideal of romanitas.
• He was a mighty builder and splendid adorner of cities; all that remained unsystematized in the Augustan system, he reduced to perfect system and order. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19