| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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The French Pindar. Jean Dorat (1507–1588). Also Ponce Denis Lebrun (1729–1807). | 1 |
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The Italian Pindar. Gabriello Chiabrera; whence Chiabreresco is in Italian tantamount to “Pindaric.” (1552–1637.) | 2 |
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Peter Pindar. Dr. John Wolcott (1738–1812). | 3 |
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Pindar of England. George, Duke of Buckingham, most extravagantly declared Cowley to be the Pindar, Horace, and Virgil of England. | 4 |
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In Westminster Abbey, the last line of Gray’s tablet claims the honour of British Pindar for the author of The Bard. | 5 |
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| “She [Britain] felt a Homer’s fire in Milton’s strains, |
| A Pindar’s rapture in the lyre of Gray.” | |
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