The “manes,” poets and epitaphs are so fond of apostrophizing, should have lively wits and faithful memories if they would keep the run of their mortal parts.
The lettering—much of it irregularly and unskillfully done—is more distinct than epitaphs not thirty years old, in our country church-yards.
Nothing of the poems of this epoch has survived but one or two epitaphs in Saturnian measure.
They have epitaphs for battle-cries, and malign the living in the name of the dead.
There are also some strange epitaphs in the village graveyard, with its painted wooden head-boards, and high fence to keep the dogs out.
Bianca's grave; and epitaphs for it by the Florentines.
Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved, Where still so much is said; One half will never be believed, The other never read.
I suspect the fault lies in the supposition that epitaphs of general application cannot be made at all.
At Auburn they are wanted, and much more at Nashville (Tennessee), where the stonecutting department is superintended by an honest Englishman, whose stock of epitaphs is small and of miserable quality.
This theme might be pursued at length, for the composers of epitaphsvaried it with remarkable cleverness and versatility of imagination.
As soon as Nations had learned the use of letters, Epitaphs were inscribed upon these Monuments; in order that their intention might be more surely and adequately fulfilled.
These sensations and judgments, acted upon perhaps unconsciously, have been one of the main causes why Epitaphs so often personate the Deceased, and represent him as speaking from his own Tombstone.
I have derived Monuments and Epitaphs from two sources of feeling: but these do in fact resolve themselves into one.
The study of epitaphs and mortuary architecture, though not without elements bordering on the ludicrous, is enjoyed by the thoughtful student.
The following epitaphs are gathered from various sources: "This stone marks the remains of the believer who never grows old.
He produced two epitaphs upon his father, the celebrated mathematician.
Among the epitaphs on the tombstones, I noticed a variation of the old familiar strain: Afflictions sore he long time bore, Which wore his strength away, That made him long for heavenly rest Which never will decay.
The undertaker and the carver of epitaphs had marked me for execution, and, assisted by the Heartsdale Comet Band, had made hopeful progress.
My employer pecked away at the epitaphs with his chisel and amended them with his conversation.
The Tutes and Shutes and Roots began their epitaphs thus: "Here lies cut down like unripe fruit The wife of Deacon Amos Shute.
In one of the most graceful epitaphs of the Roman period[11] the dead man sums up the happiness of his long life by saying that he never had to weep for any of his children, and that their tears over him had no bitterness.
His date is fixed by two epitaphs on Hypatius, brother of the Emperor Anastasius, who was put to death by Justinian in A.
Two epitaphs in the Anthology are also ascribed to Theophanes in Planudes.
Among these epitaphs is the celebrated couplet of Simonides[3] which has found a place in all subsequent Anthologies.
Among his epigrams are epitaphs on Alexander and on Philip; his date is further fixed by the mention of Potidaea in another epigram, as Cassander, who died B.
So touching in their stately reserve, so piercing in their delicate austerity, these epitaphs are in a sense the perfection of literature, and yet in another sense almost lie outside its limits.
The sorrow of death is spoken of freely; nor is there any poetry more pathetic than those epitaphs which, lovely in their sadness, commemorate the lost child, the sundered lovers, the disunited life.
Epitumbia}, sepulchral pieces: consisting partly of epitaphs real or imaginary, partly of epigrams on death or on dead persons in a larger scope.
Also, epitaphs to suit the memory of any person deceased.
Epitaphs are so difficult to write-especially epitaphs on women of whom in life the least said the better.
I have collected epitaphs for years past, and it is surprising how many--and those some of the best in a literary sense--defy every attempt to trace them to sepulchral sources.
Are there not hundreds of epitaphs in print which have no existence except as printer's paragraphs, and which serve the same purpose as the immortal calf with six legs, and the numberless gigantic gooseberries and plethoric turnips.
He also drained some of the impure springs of the Vatican, and repaired and adorned with epitaphs in verse many of the tombs of the martyrs interred in the Catacombs.
A collection of nearly forty of those epitaphs is still extant, and justifies the praises which St. Jerome bestows on his poetical genius.
I will be willing to wager one of these excellent doughnuts that these young men, collectively, have never read six epitaphs in their lives.
We have on Macdonald's list the names of only seven more, and theirepitaphs are for the most part very brief.
He was indeed the "Old Mortality" of Socialism, wandering from grave to grave, patiently deciphering the epitaphs of defunct "Phalanxes.
The custom arose of stating in epitaphs the exact length of a life to the very hour, for the moment of birth determined that of death: Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
Greek: Eupsuchei] is found in the epitaphs of initiates in the Alexandrian mysteries.
The Phrygian epitaphs frequently have the character of dedications, and it appears that the graves were grouped about the temple, see Ramsay, Studies, pp.
Among these many epitaphs on smugglers to be met with in the churchyards of seaboard parishes is the following, to be found in the waterside parish of Mylor, near Falmouth.
Not infrequently, in the old churchyards of seaboard parishes, epitaphsbearing upon the story of smuggling may be found.
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