Textually, the poem carries an epigraph from the seventeenth-century. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour of the Sceptic] Reference
I did check, wondering if it should be an "e" as in "epigraph". posted by Hal Duncan | 2: 46 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Losts in Translation] Reference
My epigraph is similarly striking: When language fails us, when we fail each other there is no exorcism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Note 65: The epigraph is from a local song, "A Woman's Tongue Will Never Take a Rest," collected in Cape Broyle in 1968. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
Note 50: Recall the epigraph to this chapter. back. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
I discovered a perfect epigraph, which is about as close as I came to actually writing. From Wordnik.com. [Call it what you will.] Reference
He took his title and epigraph from Mt. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
Let Carlyle's sentence be our epigraph on Voltaire. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Thus reads the opening epigraph in Lynn Hershman Leeson's film. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Simmons: Terrorizing the Artists in the USA] Reference
The epigraph acknowledges Balzac's profound admiration of the Bard. From Wordnik.com. [Decline and Fall?] Reference
Lawrence Stone's choice of epigraph could hardly be more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [The View from the Keyhole] Reference
This is what Biden is attempting to say in the garbled epigraph above. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Moroz: Overstimulated: Governors Got The Goods] Reference
Among them was an amphora, having the following epigraph in black paint. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
TS Eliot used "Mistah Kurtz -- he dead" as the epigraph of the poem The Hollow Men. From Wordnik.com. [Pepe Escobar: Mistah McChrystal - He Dead] Reference
GROSS: Well, Id like to end by asking you to read the epigraph that opens your book. From Wordnik.com. [Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North] Reference
I chose the quote about books and bombs as a epigraph for the first edition in 2004. From Wordnik.com. [Norman MacAfee: Books Not Bombs: Robert Kennedy in Indiana] Reference
The epigraph to John Fowles's new novel is a passage from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. From Wordnik.com. [Only Disconnect] Reference
Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph, a Biographical Portrait, epigraph, p. vii (1972). From Wordnik.com. [Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979)] Reference
In the original edition of Le père Goriot, Balzac left this terse epigraph in English. From Wordnik.com. [Decline and Fall?] Reference
Antiquarians have filled out this sentence into the touching epigraph recorded by Livy, which. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia; His Life, Speeches and Writings, epigraph, p. 594 (1893). From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-82)] Reference
Fascism exploits that fact, as regretted in the Auden sonnet which provides the poem's epigraph. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference
Science and Technique in Positive Law (1921-30) bears the epigraph “irreducible natural law.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
John Womack Jr. uses these words as the epigraph to his book Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader. From Wordnik.com. [Chiapas: The Indians' Prophet] Reference
Lines from the Ode on Melancholy would make a suitable epigraph for The Folding Star, which is all about. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Old Sweet Song] Reference
Henry James's famous final words might be the epigraph for the literary genre we call mystery/detective. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Locked Room] Reference
He glanced at the title, then moved his eye down to the epigram, or epigraph, or whatever you called it. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
He always wished to furnish me an epigraph, not like that which made Montesquieu a member of the academy. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
MS: Then there's Charles Fort, the source of the equally haunting second epigraph, "I think we're property.". From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
It's fascinating that Jhabvala and Ivory have chosen not to include that often quoted epigraph in their movie. From Wordnik.com. [Forster Revisited] Reference
The epigraph (from Raymond Chandler) sets the tone: "There must be idealism, but there must also be contempt.". From Wordnik.com. [Jan Herman: Say Hello to Carl Weissner] Reference
The somber epigraph for Pat Barker's tenth novel, taken from Francisco Goya, is applicable to all of her fiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Mythmaking Realist] Reference
The reference is to the very beautiful poem by Herbert, "The Pulley," which supplies the novel's title and epigraph. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies in Distress] Reference
The above quote is the epigraph for the third chapter of Manuel DeLanda's book, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. From Wordnik.com. [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference
Don't blame the rioters too much for harming Cabot, the epigraph implies, they were "unheard" and needed a way to speak. From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: Three Poems For Martin Luther King Day] Reference
This epigraph from Flaubert's lexicon would surely mystify most of the audience for the new Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan. From Wordnik.com. ['Figaro' at the Met: A Marriage on the Rocks] Reference
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