Years later, this butler, Joshua Queeney, 'a much enfeebled old man,' retold and enlarged the tale of the enormous consumption of his best wine; with a sacred oath to confirm it, and a tear expressive of Elegiacal feelings.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
It blends the passion of personal regret with the dignity of public grief, as all great Elegiacal poems should.
"Raleigh"
Edmund Gosse