Book of Odes
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The "Book of Odes" consists of national airs, chants, and sacrificial odes of great antiquity, some of them remarkable for their sublimity.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
She knew the "Book of Odes" by heart, and could repeat the five rules of life without missing a word.
From The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various
In Dr. Legge's translation of the "Book of Odes," p.
From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper
Then we have the Book of Odes, consisting of some three hundred ballads, also rescued by Confucius from oblivion, on which as a basis the great superstructure of modern Chinese poetry has been raised.
From China and the Chinese by Giles, Herbert Allen
Saying which he tuned his lyre, and sang probably some of those songs from his recently compiled Book of Odes which breathed the wisdom of the ancient emperors.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John
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