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... Epitaphs . To define an epitaph is useless ; everyone knows that it is an inscription on a tomb . An epitaph , therefore , implies no particular character of writing , but may be composed in verse or prose . It is indeed commonly ...
... Epitaphs . To define an epitaph is useless ; everyone knows that it is an inscription on a tomb . An epitaph , therefore , implies no particular character of writing , but may be composed in verse or prose . It is indeed commonly ...
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... epitaph , as in many others , there appears at the first view a fault which I think scarcely any beauty can compensate . The name is omitted . The end of an epitaph is to convey some account of the dead ; and to what purpose is anything ...
... epitaph , as in many others , there appears at the first view a fault which I think scarcely any beauty can compensate . The name is omitted . The end of an epitaph is to convey some account of the dead ; and to what purpose is anything ...
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... epitaph the first couplet is good , the second not bad , the third is deformed with a broken metaphor , the word crowned not being applicable to the honours or the lays , and the fourth is not only borrowed from the epitaph on Raphael ...
... epitaph the first couplet is good , the second not bad , the third is deformed with a broken metaphor , the word crowned not being applicable to the honours or the lays , and the fourth is not only borrowed from the epitaph on Raphael ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742 | 65 |
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