One would infer from the above that Mrs. Gray was not "interred in the churchyard of the place," though the epitaph given immediately after shows that she was.
Wakefield quotes Pope, Epitaph on Fenton: "Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Gray's epitaph on his mother is characterized not only by the tenderness with which he always regarded her memory, but by his style and cast of thought.
Yet his monument teaches in short compass a deep lesson; and his epitaphsums up the dream which lured the men of Italy in the Renaissance to their doom.
The epitaph he composed for himself and the Countess d'Albani is most simply and affectingly expressive of long and perfect friendship.
Before I sink into the abyss, I will write upon this stone the epitaph of a world.
This epitaph which here you see, Supply'd the Epithalamie.
I was a little surprised lately, seeing in the last Gentleman's Magazine a letter from somebody at Winchester, in which is a copy of the epitaph of our poor friend Unwin: an English, not a Latin one.
We subjoin the epitaph which replaced the pious and classical composition of Cowper.
The epitaph you saw is on the tomb of the same Mr. Unwin to whom the "Tirocinium" is inscribed; the son of the lady above mentioned.
Thank him most kindly for his attention to the old bard of Greece, and pardon me that I do not now send you an epitaph for Fop.
We have seldom seen so cold and jejune an epitaph to commemorate a man distinguished by so many virtues, and associated with such interesting recollections.
A Latin epitaph was composed on this occasion by Cowper, but objected to by a relative of the family, because it adverted to his mother's early prayers that God might incline his heart to the ministry.
If a more striking or more dramatic effect could be produced, I have always thought, that in an epitaph or memorial of any kind, a father or husband, etc.
Boeotia, rising in Mount Helicon and flowing round it, hence sacred to the Muses; and that the fountain of Hippocrene--also referred to in Epitaph V.
This elegant epitaph is upon a gravestone in Concord, Mass.
A curiously incomprehensible epitaph is this, which always strikes me afresh, upon each perusal, as a sort of mortuary conundrum: "O!
Sometimes an old epitaph will be found of such impressive though simple language that it clings long in the memory.
And there is another stone with a threat as grim as that of the Bard of Avon, for the epitaphexpresses the wish that "Whoever Removes this Stone Or causes it to be Removed May he die the last of All his Friends.
On the tomb of our next author stands the epitaph Urna capit cineres, nomen non orbe tenetur.
The letter and epitaph are good enough specimens of his humor to be quoted in full: DEAR MISS, I lament with you most sincerely the unfortunate end of poor Mungo.
Later, when the younger Quincy's zeal had actually consumed him, Franklin wrote to the elder Quincy: The epitaph on my dear and much esteemed young Friend, is too well written to be capable of Improvement by any Corrections of mine.
It was to Georgiana, when a child, that he wrote his well-known letter containing anepitaph on her squirrel, which had been dispatched by a dog.
One would have imagined that the writer of his own panegyrical epitaph would have been careful to have transmitted to posterity a copy of his features; but I know of no portrait of Toland.
It was like writing her epitaph on the heart of her child.
I give the epitaph verbatim, with its true orthography.
Could this epitaph have been carved on the outside, you would have read it and forgotten it with natural satiety.
Once more he might have been seen kneeling beside the ruin, his eyes strained close to its heart, awaiting another flash to tell him that the inviolable epitaph had shared in the destruction.
Ah, it was the hidden epitaph that wrought the error!
No more could you rend the heart from the human bosom than this epitaph from the monument.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epitaph" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
