"Pindaric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in no sense more thoroughly Pindaric than in the circumstance of their flatteries being bought and paid for at a stated market value. The triumphal lyrics of Pindar himself were very far from being those spontaneous and enthusiastic tributes to the prowess of his heroes, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... regular Directors with just contempt, as a parcel of mean, mechanical book-keepers. He is an eccentric book-keeper, a Pindaric accountant. I have heard of "the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling." Here was a revenue exacted from whom he pleased, at what times he pleased, in what proportions he pleased, through what persons he pleased, by what means ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
