Both Uses of
epic
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Here, assuredly, is more than sufficient to render a life happy and illustrious, and to deserve some day a notable page in that interesting history of the provosts of Paris, where one learns that Oudard de Villeneuve had a house in the Rue des Boucheries, that Guillaume de Hangest purchased the great and the little Savoy, that Guillaume Thiboust gave the nuns of Sainte-Geneviève his houses in the Rue Clopin, that Hugues Aubriot lived in the Hôtel du Pore-Epic, and other domestic facts.†
Chpt 1.6.1epic = an outstanding work of literature or film
- I still make epics and tragedies now and then; but that which brings me in most is the industry with which you are acquainted, master; carrying pyramids of chairs in my teeth.†
Chpt 2.10.1 *epics = outstanding works of literature or film
Definition:
something that is outstanding -- especially a literary work that is long and heroic