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The epitaph of ancient democracy was a bitter legacy that should have served as a salutary lesson to all.
This obituary, I suspect, may turn out to be an epitaph on a culture of knowledge and scholarship.
It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
The scribes had a field day, prematurely writing his epitaph and the Pharisees laughed away any possibility of a resurrection.
The language in Atistia's epitaph is archaizing, as is the language used on the three other sides of the monument.
One of the greatest figures in English Literature and yet not a mention, in her epitaph, of her achievements.
Luckily a face saving penalty shoot out loss 5-4 buried what could have been an embarrassing epitaph of the state of Dutch footy.
This might be recorded on their tombstone as an epitaph or in an obituary, commemoration portrait, or in some cases a biography.
A few words like that are sweeter than an epitaph on the grandest tombstone ever raised.
I read what I had written about an epitaph that had struck me as particular and meaningful.
I'm sure Barry meant well but I'd think twice before commissioning him to write your epitaph.
He realized this was not just a monument but also a grave, and the inscription was an epitaph.
I have recently come across a photocopy of the epitaph written on the grave of my uncle, John Agar.
The recent inscription of his epitaph upon their large granite gravestone gave him a sense of contentment and presaged a new era for humankind.
It seems an unfair epitaph to bear, but his elbow is now fixed almost as firmly in the nation's mind as his mane of blond hair.
Anyway, his description of his position then stands as a description of his career, and its epitaph.
The historical desacralization of formerly powerful religious imagery also is suggested by the motif of the nursing woman who sits beneath the epitaph.
Many of you were writing our epitaph and reminiscing of the good old days, whatever they happened to have been.
I read the epitaph on the footstone, then read the epitaph on the next one as well.
So he entitled one of his earlier books, thus already authoring his own epitaph.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The round robin sent to Dr. Johnson on the subject of his epitaph on Goldsmith is well known.
But, now, the memory of it has been awakened within me by you, and I have read you its epitaph.
I would have for my epitaph your smile and the whimsical irony of your comment.
Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer?
In an epitaph in high wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working of a clock.
As for the dead man, he read his epitaph in a phrase, accompanied by a meaning nod toward the disfigured and insentient head.
He was buried at Dublin, with an epitaph recording his cowardice.
There his epitaph may be read in fine bold lettering, still distinct.
But he, who would henceforth be dead to his native land, would have no epitaph save scornful and vindictive words.
Then, with a sudden dart of irony, he wondered if, when their turn came, the same epitaph would be written over him and Zeena.
Next is a copy of an acrostic epitaph from Tewkesbury Abbey.
Trefusis objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false statements.
The epitaph of Phillips is in the porch of Wolverhampton Church.
The following may be given as an example of a punning epitaph.
The Latin epitaph is a string of punning allusions to his name.
That epitaph was quite famous among the little family traditions that entwine every household with mingled mirth and sorrow, smiles and tears.
He was also asked to write an epitaph on John Frederick Roorbach.
Simonides composed a well-known epigram, which was engraved as an epitaph on a commemorative stone place on top of the burial mound of the Spartans at Thermopylae.
I wish my epitaph may tell the truth about me if the man did not answer up at once, and say he would go and borrow a board as soon as he had lit the pipe which he was filling.
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