Book of Odes

noun

1. a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.

Example Sentences

But the word is now mainly familiar from an experiment of Horace in the second class, for he entitled his fifth book of odes Epodon liber or the Book of Epodes.

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The 'Book of Odes' contains three hundred pieces, but one expression in it may be taken as covering the purport of all, viz.,

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From the 'Book of Odes' we receive impulses; from the 'Book of the Rules,' stability; from the 'Book on Music,' refinement.

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This is an exercise in poetry, the subject of which may be taken from the Book of Odes, or from some standard poet.

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There is a passage in one of the oldest Chinese Classics, the Book of Odes, which, in describing the palace of an ancient king, shows in a striking light the relative estimation at that remote time put upon boys and upon girls.

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