Aspects of death and correlated aspects of life in art, epigram, and poetryPaul B. Hoeber, 1918 - 786 páginas |
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... standing in the park of Gautby Hall , near Horncastle , in Lincolnshire , was originally intended to represent John Sobieski ( who was afterwards King of Poland , and saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683 ) , but Sir Robert Viner ( Lord ...
... standing in the park of Gautby Hall , near Horncastle , in Lincolnshire , was originally intended to represent John Sobieski ( who was afterwards King of Poland , and saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683 ) , but Sir Robert Viner ( Lord ...
Página xxvii
... standing in front of a fire - place , with his hands in his pockets ; he was supposed to be addressing his astonished parents ( one on either side of him ) in some such words as the following : " What can be expected of a fellow whose ...
... standing in front of a fire - place , with his hands in his pockets ; he was supposed to be addressing his astonished parents ( one on either side of him ) in some such words as the following : " What can be expected of a fellow whose ...
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... standing the protests of the monks of the monastery in question . In that connexion D'Israeli ( loc . cit . ) refers to an old woodcut representing a Fool sitting between the bony legs of Death . Artists of late Mediaeval and later ...
... standing the protests of the monks of the monastery in question . In that connexion D'Israeli ( loc . cit . ) refers to an old woodcut representing a Fool sitting between the bony legs of Death . Artists of late Mediaeval and later ...
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... standing , and on a lower slab or compartment a skeleton or corpse or emaciated or decaying body ( the so - called gisant ) is represented - often being " eaten by worms " -to warn the rich and great , and comfort the poor and ...
... standing , and on a lower slab or compartment a skeleton or corpse or emaciated or decaying body ( the so - called gisant ) is represented - often being " eaten by worms " -to warn the rich and great , and comfort the poor and ...
Página 104
... standing upright on a tomb , holding a huge dart in the right hand , and in the left a mirror , on which a death's - head is reflected . At the sides are Latin " Leonine " verses : - " Qui speculum cernis , cur non mortalia spernis ...
... standing upright on a tomb , holding a huge dart in the right hand , and in the left a mirror , on which a death's - head is reflected . At the sides are Latin " Leonine " verses : - " Qui speculum cernis , cur non mortalia spernis ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amongst ancient Anthol antique bears body Boscoreale British Museum bronze Charon Christian coins commemorating compared connexion corpse crossed bones Dance of Death dead death's-head device Diameter died doubtless dying edition emblem English engraved gems Epicurean Epicurus epigram Epigrammatists epitaph Etruscan exergue famous figure finger-rings French funeral Furtwängler German Graec Greek Anthology H. P. Dodd H. R. Storer Havelock Ellis head hour-glass human skull Hypnos idea illustrated inches inscribed inscription intaglio John kind King Latin legend likewise lines live London Lord Neaves Madai medalets medallist Mediaeval memento mori memento mori medal modern Moriendi mors Mort mortis motto obverse pain Palladas Paris physician poem portrait quod quoted referred regard representation represented reverse Roman sarcophagus satirical scene sepulchral monuments silver similar sixteenth century skeleton soul struck sun-dial Thaler Thaler-Cabinet thanatophobia Thanatos thou tomb translation various verses Vita Vollst winged
Pasajes populares
Página 19 - Tis hard to part when friends are dear— • Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Página 63 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 424 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Página 266 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Página 266 - For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Página 315 - The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me Yes! that was the reason (as all men know. In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night. Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Página 265 - Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Página 172 - May. There is no death! An angel form Walks o'er the earth with silent tread; He bears our best loved things away, And then we call them "dead.
Página 268 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 424 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...