That her tastes and accomplishments were not unworthy of such a friendship appears from many dedications of works to her while Duchess of Ferrara, including the Asolani of her admirer.
And did not these dedications inspire the prophecy uocabitur hic quoque uotis?
It was in some instances affection, in others gratitude, which gave our artist occasion to name those who were loved and esteemed by him; and with many of these dedications not unimportant circumstances are associated.
It were sincerely to be wished that, in future editions of Beethoven's works, the dedications should never be omitted, as is so frequently the case.
Some of the finest Elizabethan literature is to be found in the prefaces and dedications in these books.
If he paid at all for dedications he would pay liberally.
It may be urged in opposition to this view that in those days there was a form in which dedications and prefaces were written, and that this was more or less followed by many writers, but this contention will not stand investigation.
In both, the dedications are addressed in French to Madame de Clervent, Baronne de Coppet, etc.
The title-pages of this period are as unreliable as are the names or initials affixed to the dedications and epistles "To the Reader.
His principal works were published without dedications to patrons.
It omitted thededications and preambles, suppressed some disquisitions which palliated vicious conduct, expunged the novels that brought monks or priests into ridicule, but left the impurities of the rest untouched.
In his dedications he occasionally remarks with sober pathos on the difficulty of pursuing scientific studies in the midst of domestic anxiety.
It is evident from the dedications of Whittier and Field that each felt an almost equal debt of gratitude to the sisters with whom their early years were spent and whose affection they have so beautifully commemorated.
Very few materials exist for a life of Massinger beyond the entries of the Parish Register or the College Books, and a few slender intimations scattered here and there in the dedications to his plays.
This saintly woman must on no account be connected with the dedications of the Cornish St. Ive (pronounced Eve) near Liskeard, or the St. Ives of Huntingdonshire.
Cuthbert was certainly never in Cornwall, and the older Cornish dedications are almost invariably the actual footprints of Celtic missionaries.
Beside these dedications we must set the privilege of Francis I.
His dedications prove to what extent his whole work was accepted.
A large proportion of the dedications are made by men of servile origin, and the very name of the dedicator would often be enough to indicate his nationality.
The bricks of a Mithraeum at Carnuntum bear the stamp of the 15th Legion, and the inscriptions contain several dedications by soldiers of the two corps.
Dedications to him are the most numerous in all lands.
The dedications petrae genetrici abound along the Danube, and the sacred stone was an object of adoration in many chapels.
And in his reign dedications were made to Isis by freedmen of great consular houses.
There is no record of St. Colmoc having ever {88} lived in Scotland, but Scottish writers number him among the saints of the country, and the dedications still existing in his honour show that he had some connection with that kingdom.
Devotion to St. Barr was very great in Catholic Scotland, as numerous dedications attest.
It is worthy of note that many dedications formerly supposed to be in honour of Our Lady are now identified as those of St. Maelrubha under the title of Maree; this is proved by the traditional pronunciation of their respective names.
In the upper valley of the Dee, on the north side of the river, we find a group of {48} dedications which must have proceeded from a Welsh source.
Several dedications to this saint are to be found in the northern and eastern parts of Scotland.
The devotion of Catholics to this saint is attested by the numerous dedications of churches to his memory.
Many dedicationsto him are to be found on lonely isles and retired spots on the west coast, which seem to point to a custom of seeking solitude from time to time.
After his death devotion to him became popular, {119} and many dedications bear witness to his callus.
There were many dedicationsin Scotland to these saints.
Although the dedications to St. Finan in Scotland are many, and devotion to him must therefore have been widespread, it is difficult to assign a cause for it.
He laboured in the northern districts of Scotland, and his popularity is shown by the numerous dedications in his name.
There is no record of the saint having visited Scotland, but there was much devotion to him among Celtic peoples, and Scottish dedications bear witness to the honour in which he was held in that country.
Other dedications to this saint are at Kilfinan in the same county Kilfinan, near Invergarry, and Mochrum in Wigtonshire.
In thesededications his name appears in various forms.
His name is, therefore, found in more dedications published within these last five years than those of all other Sovereign Princes in Europe taken together for the last century.
The sums of money distributed yearly by Bonaparte's agents for dedications to him by French and foreign authors, are still greater than those fixed for regular literary pensions.
I see Novello flourishes in the Del Capo line, and dedications are not forgotten.
But as I have left out all other dedications in this complete edition, I propose to dedicate something else to you later--probably some bigger and longer work.
Here is another shrewd comment upon the compliments paid to Halifax, of whom Pope says in the character of Bufo,-- Fed with soft dedications all day long, Horace and he went hand and hand in song.
The Porte afterwards declared that it signed this treaty under persistent pressure from the Grand Duke Nicholas and General Ignatieff, who again and again declared that otherwise the Russians would advance on the capital[162].
We may perhaps use the poet's not very altruistic words as symbolising many of the feelings with which, at the dawn of the twentieth century, we look back over the stormy waters of the century that has passed away.
Many of his own love-longings were couched in the form of the dedications prefixed to his compositions.
In all of these she wrote dedications breathing devotion to her husband.
In reference to the planets, and the signs of the Zodiac, the numbers seven and twelve were recognized as sacred by the ancient Astrologers, and dedications were made to them in all kinds and sorts of forms.
Shakespeare was acquainted, and it may be inferred intimately acquainted, with Southampton, as the dedications of Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece indicate.
Mr." being applied to one who had been an Earl since 1581, and who had twice been addressed in dedications by his full titles, and that by Shakespeare himself, is a wholly inadmissible hypothesis.
But the matter was not confined to these dedications introduced by the street-youth of Alexandria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dedications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
