All 3 Uses of
Elizabethan
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans.†
Chpt 5
- Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.†
Chpt 5 *
- Then he saw himself sitting at the old piano, striking chords softly from its speckled keys and singing, amid the talk which had risen again in the room, to her who leaned beside the mantelpiece a dainty song of the Elizabethans, a sad and sweet loth to depart, the victory chant of Agincourt, the happy air of Greensleeves.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(Elizabethan) relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen (1558-1603)