Derzhavin
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Oustrialov, the historian, truly characterizes most of the voluminous writers of this epoch, as mediocre verse makers, for claiming merits in the cases of Bogdanovich, Khemnitzer, Von Vizin, Dmitriev, and Derzhavin.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
Derzhavin was enthusiastic over the recitation of his Recollections of Tsarskoe Selo.
From An Outline of Russian Literature by Baring, Maurice
Lomonosov Punin found fault with for too simple and free a style; while to Derzhavin he maintained an attitude almost of hostility, saying that he was more of a courtier than a poet.
From A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
Indeed, not only his contemporaries, but the foremost representatives of the Russian literature of that day, Derzhavin, Karamzin and Zhukovsky, made no mistake about it.
From An Outline of Russian Literature by Baring, Maurice
I began to read different poems in our books, but neither Dimitrieff nor Derzhavin could help me.
From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.
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