10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPITAPHIST»
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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the ...
... he is the rural epitaphist trapped by pastoral immobility between two worlds.
His ability to write makes him essential to preserving in the graveyard a record of
an otherwise illiterate community. But his fellow peasants are too unsophisticated
...
2
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
by his mother's 'lust'. This seems to be a libellous attack on the Countess of
Macclesfield. The Epitaphist now moves swiftly on to enlist sympathy for Savage.
He suffered from poverty and dangerous misfortunes, yet he continued to write
poetry ...
3
The rambler in Worcestershire, or Stray notes on churches ...
What is become of this grammar school I cannot ascertain, but I saw the
gravestone of one Anthony Mogridge, who was its master in the year 1 709, and
upon whose memory the epitaphist has heaped an abundance of eulogy — a
somewhat ...
4
Notitiæ Ludæ, Or Notices of Louth. [By Robert S. Bayley. ...
20, 1643, says, “I am certainly informed that there were not above 15 pieces
found in the pocket of Col. Bolles, who, until he fell himself, did bravely
encourage and lead on his soldiers.” 1' The ignorance of this epitaphist is seen
first, in calling ...
Robert Slater BAYLEY,
1834
5
The Foreign Quarterly Review
A Greek or Latin epitaphist would unquestionably laugh at one and nil of our
attempts at classic verse, just as we laugh at thf unlucky ambition of the Marquis.
But when the Viscount returns to memoirs, he is always intelligent and interesting
.
6
Robert South (1634-1716): An Introduction to His Life and ...
South's epitaphist notes his emotional outbursts and tries to enclose them in an
observable cause-and-effect sequence: the vice, vileness, and counterfeit nature
of contemporary life caused him to react, liberrima indignatione (I, xcix).
7
Birkenhead and Its Surroundings
... Then concord must have left the Heavens above: But if perchancc he's found a
lower level, Well, then, we heartily commiserate the devil.” Mr.- Lowe took his
revenge in characteristic QUAINT EPITAPHS 167 fashion. He invited the
epitaphist ...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane].
A Greek or Latin epitaphist would unquestionably laugh at one and all of our
attempts at classic verse, just as we laugh at the unlucky ambition of the Marquis.
But when the Viscount returns to memoirs, he is always intelligent and interesting
.
John George Cochrane,
1837
9
Saraband: The Memoirs of E.L. Mascall
Nunc coeunt pietas at que superstitio wrote a contemporary epitaphist, leaving
the reader to decide which lady represented piety and which superstition.
Anyhow, there St Frideswide is, beneath a brass plate in the floor of the Lady
Chapel ...
Eric Lionel Mascall,
1992
10
Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium
His attitude toward epitaphs generally may be gleaned from the status of Robert
Emmet's epitaph as the final words of Sirens, Emmet himself a reluctant
epitaphist. His last words from the dock after his sentence of death are historically
read as ...
Morris Beja, Shari Benstock,
1989