| 单词 | epigraph |
| 例句 | Which is why the epigraph of this book is the quatrain from the famous Christmas carol. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In Galileo’s famous words, which provide the epigraph to this chapter, the book of the universe is written in geometrical figures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I open to the epigraph, a quote by Wendell Berry: "In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And the epigraph on Mr. Throne’s script is Abraham Lincoln’s observation that “books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” Review: Being Young and Bored in a Book Club on ‘Sunday’ 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images "Only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real," goes a line in the epigraph to James Salter's new novel. All That Is by James Salter – review 2013-05-11T13:01:01Z The book's epigraph is from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," another very personal work about struggling in life and as a writer. ArtsBeat: On the Rocks: Benjamin Anastas Talks About 'Too Good to Be True' 2012-10-18T19:55:53Z Mahmud supplies one of the epigraphs to “Red Birds” — a little line asking the audience to silence their phones, presumably before the gathering that night. A New Novel Stars the Dupes, Villains and Victims of America’s Forever War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The revolutionary’s romanticism was on view in “Body/Soul,” a program by Word Dance Theater of six Duncan works and a raft of others, with that Duncan quote as its epigraph. ‘Body/Soul’ and heart, in dances of the many shades of love 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z There is something devastatingly mischievous about the subverted authority of the fictional epigraph, just as there is something wonderfully mischievous about Fitzgerald's quatrain itself. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z The epigraph of Mr. Thirlwell’s book is taken from Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger,” another obvious progenitor. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Yet apart from a few poems that serve as chapter epigraphs, I cannot discern how these papers enriched “In the Great Green Room.” A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Several of the epigraphs that introduce chapters are irrelevant or misplaced. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z This book’s epigraph is an earnest passage from “The Glass Castle” in which Jeannette Walls lovingly thanks her family. From Joshua Ferris: A Father’s Scattershot Legacy, Narrated Unreliably 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Stack includes an epigraph from Adrienne Rich: “The experience of motherhood was eventually to radicalize me.” Domestic Confidential: What Happens When a New Mother’s Home Becomes a ‘Job Site’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z As the epigraph to her book, Mays quotes Milton’s encomium to Shakespeare’s poetry as his “live-long monument.” ‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea Mays 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z When treated with the necessary respect, a well-placed epigraph can work wonders. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z When The Waste Land appeared in November 1922 it was prefaced by an epigraph about death from . Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z The very sound takes us back to the epigraph and seems, initially, to explain it. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z He sent her a few corrections on Dalit life and told her he loved that she quotes Thomas Piketty in her epigraph. She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Creech's epigraph seems to anticipate the latter reaction by posing the question: "What is 'real'?" The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech - review 2012-12-21T22:55:04Z It's a nod, of course, towards Darwin, and The Origin of Species is quoted as an epigraph; clearly the book is about evolution. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z The series opens with an epigraph from Nietzsche—“Without music, life would be a mistake”—and soon finds Cornelius buttering up his talent with monumental slabs of creamy fat. “American Soul,” Reviewed: “Soul Train” and the Making of a Mogul 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Instructions for a Funeral” is Means’s second collection to take an epigraph from William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All.” A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z But now the sharp edge of the epigraph becomes fully apparent. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z Fascism exploits that fact, as regretted in the Auden sonnet which provides the poem's epigraph. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Shook opens with a kind of epigraph, a stanza from Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again,” throwing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan some poetic shade. At the last reading of exiled Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi before he is barred from the U.S. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The good doctor’s fiery admonition might stand as the epigraph for this high-intensity, high-volume production, which opened on Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, presented by Manhattan Theater Club. Theater Review: ‘An Enemy of the People’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2012-09-28T02:00:19Z For an epigraph, Gold offers this tongue-in-cheek disclaimer: “My mother assures me none of this happened” — which is how you can be certain that most of it did. Review | With his mother chasing men and money, a boy learns to grow up on his own 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z I made that the epigraph for my final chapter. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z The description perhaps underrates her novel, but is a fitting epigraph for this play and its decorously debauched protagonist. Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z His books always had epigraphs with poems by Pablo Neruda. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z I took the piece as camp until I read its epigraph in the program: “The best gift is acceptance.” Dance Review: Avi Scher & Dancers at Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater 2012-04-09T20:47:24Z Quoting Graham Greene in his epigraph, the author evokes the skills of the master, with a story that sticks in the mind. An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell ? review 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z They are both the epigraph to Baldwin’s book and its final words. Review: ‘Can I Get a Witness?’ Takes James Baldwin’s Message to Church 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Typically, in literary fiction, epigraphs are gloomy, perhaps some Hannah Arendt or Robert Oppenheimer or Nietzsche. Jeanette Winterson’s Playful New Novel Offers Thoughts on Mad Science and Sexbots 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In his epigraph DelGaudio — a sleight-of-hand artist and stage performer — quotes Ecclesiastes: “We are born knowing only truth. Then we see.” Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Boyz N the Hood began with an epigraph stating: “One out of every 21 black American males will be murdered in their lifetime.” Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z This week's poem, The God of Love, is written as an eye-witness account, almost in defiance of the quoted epigraph. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z In the first section, a handful of short poems focus on Li’s photographs; the blocks of text, confined on the page, appear like epigraphs. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z “Based on an actual lie” reads an epigraph on screen at the start of the film. Is The Farewell the olive branch the US-China culture war needs? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The story ends with a beautiful epitaph seemingly meant to bookend the Walser epigraph, but that doesn’t quite fulfill the story we’ve just read. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The epigraph, lines from Seamus Heaney, prepares us: “Compose in darkness. / Expect aurora borealis / in the long foray / but no cascade of light.” Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The book’s epigraph is from Henry James’s novel “The Ambassadors”: “Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to.” Christopher Hitchens on Writing, Mortality and Cancer 2011-10-09T20:13:18Z Like his antihero, Bruen loves words, even other people’s words, and introduces his chapters with epigraphs from odd sources. Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z As the title-defining epigraph from Joyce alerts us – "A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella" – fraternity is an urgent concern. Umbrella by Will Self – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z At first, the conscientious reader struggles to consider these passages as though they comprised a tall stack of individual epigraphs. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z There’s no immediate point to the scene; in time, though, it reads like an epigraph and a declaration of intent. ‘Give Me Liberty’ Review: A Wild Ride With a Virtuoso of Chaos 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Before it appeared in “The Stand” mini-series, Mr. King excerpted lyrics from the song for an epigraph in the book. ‘(Don’t Fear) the Reaper’ Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Another photo features the typescript title page, where Hemingway added in pencil, as an epigraph, Gertrude Stein’s quotation “You are all a lost generation.” Hemingway’s Novel Is Reissued With Original First Chapter 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z To this end, the book's epigraph is illuminating. Caught on camera: Danny Lyon's Like a Thief's Dream 2011-01-11T15:22:50Z The book’s epigraph from E. M. Forster poses an overarching question: “What is the effect of property upon the character?” Money Can’t Buy Love, but It Can Buy Goods — and in These Stories, Lots of Trouble 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z This is the epigraph as poetry; the art of juxtaposition. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z One of this work’s two epigraphs comes from Chekhov: “I find it somehow sad and shameful to admit, even to myself, that my youth has passed entirely without love.” My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z It was Greene's late novel, Monsignor Quixote, and there was the same epigraph. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z The novel's epigraph is from the lost airman Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and images of flight and fall resonate in a supple translation by Anne McLean, twice winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction prize. The Sound of Things falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – review 2012-11-16T08:00:07Z Dunn’s sly, companionable collection, his 19th, is filled with an embrace of the everyday that reifies the epigraph from Emerson: “An actually existent fly is more important than a possibly existent angel.” New & Noteworthy Poetry From Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon and More 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z At first glance, this book seems constructed of very cerebral debates between mother and son — even the epigraph, Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Argument,” includes the line: “argue argue argue with me.” A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Kozinn and Sinclair sagely begin their book with an epigraph in which McCartney himself gets to the heart of the matter. "The McCartney Legacy": An in-depth study of Paul's angsty transition from Beatle to solo superstar 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “Piranesi” is far less devoted to such blending, though it opens with two epigraphs, one of which you’ll Google in vain. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z One of Leonard's authorial dedications itself reads like a sort of epigraph. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z “Swift Arrow,” deftly interpreted by Peck and Mejia, comes with an epigraph from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “The harmony of the ordered-world is one of contrary tensions, like that of the harp or bow.” Review | At Kennedy Center’s ‘Evening of Jazz and Dance,’ glimmers of renewal 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Each chapter of Maggie and Me has an epigraph from Margaret Thatcher, such as "I am extraordinarily patient … provided I get my own way in the end." Maggie and Me by Damian Barr – review 2013-04-25T09:00:12Z Indeed, the very presence of an epigraph can make us question what lies before us. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z The epigraph of “Talking It Over”, “He lies like an eyewitness”, is described simply as a “Russian saying”. Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z As a voice-over murmurs the epigraph, the camera surveys the murky skyline of Nanjing, the Chinese city through which its restless young characters drift in a state of sullen heat. | 'Spring Fever': From Lou Ye, a Taboo Film on Gay Romance 2010-08-05T23:38:00Z The epigraph — “How accidentally a fate is made . . . or how accidental it all may seem when it is inescapable” — comes from “The Human Stain.” “How accidentally a fate is made”: Ed Tarkington on love and its complications, the toll of mental and physical illness — and how dark episodes become the seeds of story 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z That sentence is the epigraph to Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion” and Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things.” A Rich Novel That Reveals Itself Through Linked Lives 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z "Oh dear, I have a feeling this book is going to be a disaster for me," Simon comments in the epigraph to the book. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z Egan also gestures to this paradox by choosing as her epigraph a quote from Herman Melville, who spent most of his life not on the island of Nantucket but on the island of Manhattan. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z So is the epigraph you pass on your way back up the stairs into daylight and life: In France, a Monument Honors the American Flyers of World War I 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z What he says serves as a fitting epigraph or central maxim for “Cartel Land,” which surveys two different frontiers of the disordered relationship between Mexico and the United States without trying to deliver moral lessons. “Cartel Land”: A crazy, violent trip into Mexico’s deadly drug war and America’s border paranoia 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z His program notes for “Lohengrin” even use a Brecht poem, “In Praise of Doubt,” as an epigraph. Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Though the script includes an epigraph from that literary master of poisonous passion, Jean Racine, “All the Ways” feels less like classical tragedy than vintage soap opera. Review: ‘All the Ways to Say I Love You,’ a Lesson in Guilt 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Her intent becomes clear: to imagine an archive, or dream a structure, in which her story can live, surrounded by literary trappings—epigraphs, prologue—that lend it legitimacy. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka The novel has an epigraph from the Canterbury Tales and presents a collection of stories told by modern travellers to the city of Thomas à Becket. Ten of the best trips to Canterbury 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z My novel Heartbreak has an epigraph from Ulysses: "the man in the mackintosh loves a lady who is dead". The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z Along with journalistic access Church has furnished Mezrich with nine epigraphs and an epilogue. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z His sense of mischief extended to the epigraphs at the head of each chapter. Colin Dexter, Whose Creations Included Inspector Morse, Dies at 86 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z That would be the perfect epigraph for this book. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The opening epigraph, identifying the infectious nature of "detective-fever", comes from Collins's great detective story The Moonstone. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z The book’s epigraph from Wendell Berry best captures his motivation: to “grow humble before the place” that he might “arrive in his place and … want to remain.” Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The epigraph of “100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do” is a line of Stafford’s father: “Why tell what hurts?” ‘100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do’: Love and sorrow between two brothers 2012-11-30T05:07:24Z All Victorian life is here, which means the novel itself becomes a kind of freakshow, obsessed with its relationship to its own cleverly chosen epigraphs and the "penny dreadful" tales to which characters allude. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z The book gets rolling with an epigraph from O’Hara — “All I want is boundless love” — and the pages that follow are peppered with allusions to the bard of “Lunch Poems.” To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Rather, he built his books in nuggets and epigraphs, oddball observation by peculiar found fact, to portray the mind of the narrator, who was generally an artist in some state of mental distress. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z It begins with two perfect epigraphs, one from EM Forster and one from Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Questions of Travel", from which the novel takes its title. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser – review 2013-04-27T07:30:00Z Is this a book about a man losing himself 'very quietly in the world', as the epigraph from Kierkegaard suggests? Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2013-01-11T20:00:10Z I had used a passage from Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” as my book’s epigraph, but so explicitly nudging my work into line with that of a Nobel Prize winner felt arrogant, unseemly. Our Autofiction Fixation 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z This rich, sprawling film bears out the words in the unascribed epigraph that prefaces the film: “There could be a novel by Tolstoy in everyone’s life.” Review: With ‘One Cut, One Life,’ Ed Pincus and Lucia Small Document His Illness 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z I chose that Proust passage as the epigraph to my novel. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Its epigraph could easily have been Puck’s famous observation, “What fools these mortals be!” Review | The 19th-century book that helps us understand the allure — and perils — of social media 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z "It isn't rational" — an observation that could serve as an epigraph to Orton's collected works. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The collection features an epigraph from the poet James Schuyler: “Poetry, like music, is not just song.” Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The author includes Helen Reddy’s famous lyric “I am woman, hear me roar” as an epigraph, but she might just as easily have used “I’m every woman. It’s all in me.” Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z An epigraph, excerpted from a poem by Nikki Giovanni, reads: “Black love is black wealth and they’ll / probably talk about my hard childhood / and never understand that / all the while I was quite happy.” The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z But so thorough is Ms. Ruff’s investment in her character that we can read something like the thoughts that McCullers gave Berenice in the novel, which come to hover like an epigraph over this production. Review: A Housekeeper Claims Center Stage in ‘Member of the Wedding’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z "Freedom is always available," reads one of the epigraphs that start the book. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T13:30:01Z Jenny Jackson means onetime Brooklyn Heights resident Truman Capote no disrespect, and his quote “I live in Brooklyn. By choice” serves as an epigraph to “Pineapple Street,” her first novel. A Successful Editor Turns Debut Author, Surprising Nearly Everyone 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z But from the very epigraph, quoting a fictional scientist who says that it is physically impossible to survive for 40 days without sustenance, it’s clear that one door, at least, is closed. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Her book's epigraphs encourage the association of fact and fiction. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z “I’m not sure I believe in beginnings and endings,” Adams murmurs, handing the audience an epigraph and a clue. Watching “Arrival” After the Election 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The new book’s epigraph explains that “to refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force — the imagination.” A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The book’s epigraph, taken from a letter Bolívar composed in 1823, sums it up: “It seems that the devil controls the business of my life.” The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The Genius in My Basement "I don't like your books, Alex," Simon says in the epigraph to one of Masters's chapters. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z That was always going to be the epigraph, but not the title. With 'Surpassing Certainty,' Janet Mock provides her blueprint to self-love 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Such japes aside, my favourite sorts of epigraph are those that take a sideways approach to the text. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z The book’s chapter heads tease us with delicious epigraphs, but to find the sources of those quotes you have to flip to the back and ransack the microscopic endnotes. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z For her epigraph in “The Artist of Disappearance,” Ms. Desai quotes from “Everness,” a poem by Jorge Luis Borges: “One thing alone does not exist — oblivion.” Books of The Times: ?The Artist of Disappearance? ? By Anita Desai ? Review 2012-01-10T22:04:26Z The title is homage to Elizabeth Bishop's poem of the same name which De Kretser quotes as one of two epigraphs, the second being from E M Forster's Howard's End. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser – review by Frank Moorhouse 2013-06-17T03:20:27Z The epigraph is from Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart.” A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Adams, a composer whose environmental awareness has long been deeply interwoven with his music, felt a shock of recognition when he read Paz’s 13-line poem and inscribed it as an epigraph to his score. Seattle Symphony to present world premiere of John Luther Adams’ highly anticipated ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The brief epigraph that opens the film, introducing Nushu, doesn’t mention when and in which region the language emerged, or how exactly it was developed. ‘Hidden Letters’ Review: Sororal Secrets 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In this sense, it’s fitting that “Normal People” opens with an epigraph from George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda,” drawing on a connection to the 19th-century social commentary that also examined the depth of these dividing lines. Review | At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Corbis "And then went down to the ship, / Set keel to breaker, forth on the godly sea," runs the epigraph from Ezra Pound to Andrew Greig's Found at Sea. Found at Sea by Andrew Greig – review 2013-05-03T14:36:01Z The opening chapter, with an epigraph from the Faulkner book, is told by a 10-year-old child, an echo of perhaps Faulkner’s most striking narrator, the mentally challenged Benjy. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z It should be no surprise that Miesel, the novelist, is writing a novel called “The Anomaly,” or that another of his epigraphs holds that the one thing that surpasses genius “is incomprehension.” The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It's also a kind of manifesto and at various points a meditation on the nature of whiteness; its epigraph is from "Moby-Dick." 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This Side of Paradise also supplies us with another genre of epigraph: the fictional quotation. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z Consequently, this may be the only novel ever to start with epigraphs by W.B. Review | As a novelist, David Duchovny is no Sean Penn 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z “Lost Children Archive” begins with an epigraph, a translation of the migrant’s prayer — “To leave is to die a little./To arrive is never to arrive.” Review | An author delivers a powerful plea for migrant children 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The epigraph etched in Latin on the ancient stone tablet was short and tender: “Claudia Aster, prisoner from Jerusalem.” A New Museum Explores 2,000 Years of Jewish Life in Italy 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Plath’s poem “Stings” is a fitting epigraph for the project: “They thought death was worth it, but I / Have a self to recover, a queen.” 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Maximalist in every regard, this novel contains not one epigraph at its front but 12. Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It does, I think, what every epigraph should aspire to do: surprise the reader, catching us off guard and subtly manipulating our approach to the text. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z “Driving the King” is so enveloping that it’s easy to forget its epigraph: “The art of fiction is an art of make-believe.” In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Thoreau sets “Walden’s” self-reliant tone in the original more or less immediately with his epigraph — a quote from his own book. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Appropriately, one of her epigraphs is from Adrienne Rich’s “Diving Into the Wreck.” How Does a Family Change After Losing a Child? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z There’s an echo of the epigraph from “Where Reasons End,” a line from Elizabeth Bishop: “Argue argue argue with me.” In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z An epigraph from Chekhov — “Most people live their real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy” — alerts the reader to the book’s appealing curiosity about people’s hidden selves. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The novel has an epigraph taken from a Red Army veteran named Zinoviy Pinsky, who was quoted, in 1995, in the Times: “Nothing can be more sacred than remembering the dead.” An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The epigraph to the poem is a quote from Engels, which declares, “Revolution is a natural phenomenon.” A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z As the book’s epigraph from Frank O’Hara says, “Now I am quietly waiting for/ the catastrophe of my personality/ to seem beautiful again,/ and interesting, and modern.” Review | After ‘Sweetbitter,’ does Stephanie Danler’s memoir, ‘Stray,’ live up to the hype? 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “Never confuse position with power,” the Rev. Otis Moss III, a Chicago pastor born in 1970, says in Gates’s epigraph. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The movie is prefaced with an epigraph, ascribed to Hiram Johnson, a Republican senator from California, in 1918: “The first casualty of war is truth.” | '5 Days of War': More Than One Kind of Deadline 2011-08-18T22:42:32Z His comments, in fact, serve as rather corny epigraphs to each chapter. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown – review 2013-07-13T08:30:11Z The epigraph is a quotation from Glenn Gould describing Bach’s “The Art of Fugue”: “For me, these pieces contain an endless range of gray tints.” ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The epigraph to Young Romantics is taken from something Keats wrote of his circle in 1817: "The web of our Life is of mingled yarn." Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z It’s so packed with funny, strange, haunted sentences that other writers will be stealing lines from it for epigraphs, as if it were Ecclesiastes, for the next 150 years. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Davis’s pro-slavery remarks provide Noah Feldman with both the epigraph and the title of his new book about Jefferson Davis’s nemesis, Abraham Lincoln, which seems a very odd choice. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Reflecting the dozens of epigraphs that provide narrative structure to “Green Girl,” Ruth’s identity is shaped by pop culture — movies, malls and magazines. In Kate Zambreno’s ‘Green Girl,’ a young American wanders through London An epigraph tells us of a 1978 fire set off by four militants at the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, that killed hundreds of moviegoers and incited the Iranian Revolution. ‘Careless Crime’ Review: A Time Loop in Iran 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Sebastian Faulks has muddled me up with Flaubert, who is quoted in the epigraph of his book and whom I was paraphrasing. Author, author: Michael Holroyd 2011-02-26T00:07:53Z The composers were indeed on good terms, and the added epigraph ensures that the consumer sees and hears the pieces as an expression of that friendship. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z The book's epigraph is a line from Beckett's "Waiting for Godot": "It is not every day that we are needed." ArtsBeat: Waiting for the King: Dave Eggers Talks About His New Novel 2012-06-20T14:45:33Z Clare Beams opens her unusual and transporting first novel, “The Illness Lesson” with epigraphs from Louisa May Alcott and her father, Amos Bronson Alcott. Review | ‘The Illness Lesson’ alludes to ‘Little Women’ but will remind you of darker works 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Playfulness carries “D-Man in the Waters,” choreographed by Bill T. Jones, introduced by this epigraph: “In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.” Paramount audience communes with Alvin Ailey company 2014-04-12T17:44:21Z This novel’s epigraph comes from Einstein: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Brinkley knew from the outset that he meant to have an operating principle — the idea of “witness” that serves as the title and is sharpened by the book’s epigraphs. Is Jamel Brinkley the best short-story writer of his generation? 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z There are epigraphs from Ovid, Herman Melville and Shakespeare; when one from Cormac McCarthy's The Road appears at the top of another chapter, it feels almost inevitable. When a Wildfire Burns a City Built for Extracting Oil 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z It opens with an epigraph from writer Rachel Cusk’s memoir “Aftermath” invoking “the big supermarket down the road” — the one that is “always open.” Review | Annie Ernaux deconstructs our love affair with the Walmarts of the world 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z She appears more obliquely in the final version, in an epigraph taken from her poem “Funeral” that pays tribute both to the poet and to a genre she called “podsluchańce,” or “eavesdroppings.” Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Amid the lyrics, he rapped a boast that has become an epigraph: “Future Hendrix, Dirty Sprite, legendary.” Review | On the “One Big Party” tour, past glories and Future aspirations 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Kois even uses “front-cover copy” from the Pocket Books paperback of Colwin’s novel “Happy All the Time” as an epigraph: “Life never worked out so well! Love never had it so good!” Manhattan on the rocks: A novel's dual homage to ’90s New York and a legendary author 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z This line from “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” could easily be the epigraph to “The Shards.” Can Bret Easton Ellis bring back the (fictional) glory days? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Forster’s “Howards End,” a mantra that doubles as the novel’s epigraph and a theme the literary eminence mined across his career, amid the twilight of the British Empire. Review | The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’ 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z As God, in her book’s New Testament-derived epigraph, firmly declares: “Of one blood I made all nations of man.” Review | A pioneering Black author’s novel takes us to a Wakanda-like civilization 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In fact, there was a temptation to lead this column not with the above epigraph, but with a more-obscure lyric from one Dan Hicks: “How can I miss you when you won’t go away?” He’s baack — and here we go 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z His words would make an apt epigraph to Walter Russell Mead’s magisterial new book, “The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.” Review | The real history of the U.S.-Israel relationship 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Each section of the novel is introduced by an epigraph delineating a “property of thirst.” How a daughter's love and a mother's tenacity saved Marianne Wiggins' novel 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z It began with an epigraph: “To the students of anatomy at Indiana University.” David Wagoner, prolific poet of the Northwest, is dead at 96 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Many critics — notably Carol Clover, who is quoted in Jones’ epigraph — have pointed out that slashers can serve as empowerment narratives. Review: Justice or revenge? Why not both, in Stephen Graham Jones' new meta slasher novel 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z And the epigraph that begins the book — “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it, and those who study policing know we don’t study history” — is best read as an unintentional warning. Review | A famous top cop brags of his successes — and shows his blind spots 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z For the epigraph of her poetry collection, Dr. Farr selected a verse from her beloved poet: Judith Farr, scholar of Emily Dickinson and poet in her own right, dies at 85 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The novel’s epigraph — “Black history is Black horror,” a quote from L.A.-based Black author Tananarive Due — suggests there’s something more sinister afoot. Four chilling debut thrillers for your summer reading list 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z China’s State Council released a report on human rights in the United States on Wednesday, using as an epigraph George Floyd’s plea to the police, “I can’t breathe.” An Alliance of Autocracies? China Wants to Lead a New World Order. 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The confluence of highs and lows, the swirl of the ascent and the various forms of the “curve of dismounts” the epigraph refers to, contain lyric multitudes. Poem of the week: Blowing Smoke by Nii Ayikwei Parkes 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z This introduction is noticeably absent from Hawke and Richard’s show, replaced in spirit by an opening epigraph that seems to nod to Twain: “All of this is true. Most of it happened.” ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Then I went to the quote and I loved the slipperiness of it and made it the opening epigraph. Claudia Rankine on Black Lives Matter, Naomi Osaka and justice for all 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Using epigraphs from books by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and authorized by his estate, Ross guides a reader on the powerful road of civil rights witness and awareness. Poem: Late 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z He starts chapters with epigraphs from a diverse collection of mathematicians and other thinkers and ends most of them with a puzzle or two. An Inclusive Vision of Math 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z According to Mantel in an interview in 2009, this could well have been the epigraph for everything she’d ever written to that date. My favourite Mantel: by Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and more 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Perino: The epigraph at the beginning of your book is a quotation from George Washington. Dana Perino talks to author about George Washington's forgotten final years 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Perhaps this is because their opening epigraph from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” is incomplete. Review | For working-class Americans, disaster is only a misstep away 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “More, Now, Again” opens with an epigraph from St. Augustine’s “Confessions.” Appreciation: 'Prozac Nation' author Elizabeth Wurtzel chronicled the world's woes and her own with gusto 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z So beyond the memory hacking, its pacing goes something like: Albert Camus epigraph -> platforming sequence -> hunt for health upgrade -> dialog about economic inequality and the human cost of revolution -> light navigational puzzle -> dozen-person brawl. The heady, earnest Remember Me was action game storytelling at its best 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Sara Collins In the epigraph to her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother’s Day, Hilary Mantel quotes Pascal: “Two errors; one, to take everything literally; two, to take everything spiritually.” My favourite Mantel: by Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and more 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z No wonder the epigraph at the end of its credits says, “Let’s Pop!” Review | ‘Sayonara Wild Hearts’: A bite-sized, pulsating blast I think that the only way out is through, which is why I used James Baldwin as an epigraph. Trolls have taken over our democracy. Silicon Valley helped 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z His 2009 memoir, “A Question of Freedom,” includes an epigraph from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “This hour I tell things in confidence / I may not tell everybody but I will tell you.” Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Poetry After Prison 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The epigraph of his 2014 memoir, “Black and White: The Way I See It,” comes from the 1926 Langston Hughes poem “I, Too.” Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z And I always knew those would be the epigraph. Natasha Trethewey Reads Charles Wright 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z After all, he chose Walt Whitman for the epigraph: “I am the man, I suffered, I was there.” Giovanni’s Room shows the fearful side of dauntless James Baldwin 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps Bowman gave his readers the biggest clue in the first of the novel’s two epigraphs: “Tell it slant,” the famous words of Emily Dickinson. 'Big Bang' is a quixotic quasi-history of the wild years before JFK's assassination 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z I love its little dedication on the copyright page and epigraph from Whitman. Books we hold in our hands come to life in our hearts 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Former Senator Alan Simpson, Republican of Wyoming and a longtime friend, said Mr. Bush could have just one letter as his epigraph, L for loyalty. In Funeral of Pomp and Pageantry, Nation Bids Farewell to George Bush 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z That pronouncement, by the German writer Novalis, appears as an epigraph to “The Blue Flower,” Penelope Fitzgerald’s great historical novel about him. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Lippman used for his epigraph Plato’s famous image of the inhabitants of a cave bewitched by shadows and unaware of the real world outside. Could populism actually be good for democracy? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z I suspect he chose this epigraph to assert his own right to speak. Fifty Years Later, Andrei Sakharov’s Seminal Essay Is a Powerful Model of Writing for Social Change 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z For an epigraph, Gold offers this tongue-in-cheek disclaimer: “My mother assures me none of this happened”— which is how you can be certain that most of it did. Glen David Gold’s new memoir is ‘a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humor’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z That single aberrant chapter’s epigraph quotes Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part I.” Review | A physicist explains the ‘greatest remaining mystery’: The nature of time 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The book begins with an epigraph: “Because there is no map for where we are going.” If you want to know how we ended up in a cyber dystopia, read Ready Player One 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years ago, author Octavia Butler published her iconic Parable of the Sower with the epigraph: “All that you touch you Change. All that you Change changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.” How Sci-Fi Genius Octavia Butler Inspired Janelle Monae and Ava DuVernay 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The moral dilemma Lyon sets up is explored with intelligence and grace, from the epigraphs by W.H. Rachel Lyon’s novel ‘Self-Portrait with Boy’ explores where art meets exploitation 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Lawrence quote that Cooper chooses as an epigraph attests: “The essential American soul,” he wrote, “is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” Review | In ‘Hostiles,’ an ambitious old-school Western, Christian Bale seems to channel Clint Eastwood 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Even the epigraph of a new anthology resonates: ‘A Time to Stir’ Evokes the Zeal of Columbia’s 1968 Protests 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z This became clear when I began assembling the epigraphs that appear at the top of each chapter. A matter of taste: six remarkable women and the food they ate 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z He offered different explanations for why he decided to write it, but eventually pointed journalists toward the epigraph to his book “Hoax,” a quote from someone named Jean le Malchanceux. Clifford Irving, whose ‘autobiography’ of Howard Hughes nearly fooled the nation, dies at 87 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The adage which the late physician Sherwin Nuland used as the epigraph to his autobiographical book “Lost in America” is right on the mark: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” Karma From the Wreckage 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a generous medium, photography,” he is quoted as saying in the epigraph to the MoMA catalog. The Photographer Who Saw America’s Monuments Hiding in Plain Sight 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z An opening epigraph from Nietzsche about loneliness and demons suggests a deeper character study that never materializes. Routine thriller 'Don't Sleep' relies on supernatural boilerplate 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Growing up in black culture, Ben developed a love for hip-hop music and used its lyrics as epigraphs for his blog posts on management. One Family, Many Revolutions: From Black Panthers, to Silicon Valley, to Trump 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Some of you may recognize the epigraph above from my novel “Grant Park.” The United States is anything but 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The court’s skepticism was reflected in the opening lines of the verdict, which referred to the epigraph in Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather” — “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” Pakistan’s prime minister narrowly avoids ouster in court ruling over corruption claims 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z This unusual subgenre found a kind of epigraph in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s great cautionary tale in verse, the 1798 “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z When I read in the novel’s epigraph, “Fail — yet rejoice,” it felt like a lie and an impossible imperative at once. In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The book takes one of its epigraphs from James Fenton’s “A German Requiem”: Refugees in America 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Or, as Wallace’s epigraph from Benjamin Franklin puts it, the founding fathers gave us “a republic, if you can keep it”. 'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Well, a dead man can deliver a novel’s epigraph, and maybe that’s the one for “Presumptive.” 2016: The Novel 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The rhythm of this exchange is so concise and barbed that it reads like an epigraph. At Debate, Donald Trump Is the Antidemocratic Candidate 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Except that the epigraph to his memoir is by Hilaire Belloc: Jeremy Paxman: ‘I never felt I belonged anywhere’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The cover identifies the book as a novel, and the epigraph is from William Goldman: “Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true.” Ron Hansen’s ‘The Kid’: a vivid portrait of an American outlaw 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Tizard’s wise words might be an epigraph – and an epitaph – for our story since then. Europhobia: a very British problem | Geoffrey Wheatcroft 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z He opens with an epigraph from Nietzsche, “All of life is a dispute over taste,” which pretty much sums up the problem. Why We Like What We Like 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z “There are two epigraphs in the book. One of them is the key to the book, but nobody reads epigraphs, which is fine by me.” Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z They are inscribed with epigraphs, in Japanese and English, from the Pope’s remarks. What the Pope Saw at Hiroshima 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z For that reason, I caution against opening with a famous quote or epigraph. Craft a Captivating Law School Personal Statement 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It might have been the epigraph for “Pale Fire.” Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There’s that epigraph from Job from which the title is drawn—“His remembrance shall perish from the earth and He shall have no name in the street.” Breaking into James Baldwin's House 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The collection’s epigraph is a verse from 1 Corinthians: ‘‘We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.’’ The Misanthropic Genius of Joy Williams 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Like many of his essays, “The Poet” was printed with an original short lyric as its epigraph. How Ralph Waldo Emerson Changed American Poetry 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z His words are the opening epigraph of one of the articles in the Lancet report. How much have we trashed the planet? 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Critically, given the direction of events in Athens, his celebrated epigraph was preceded by "Within our mandate..." Greece and China expose limits of 'whatever it takes' 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The second half of this exchange was used by Evelyn Waugh as the epigraph to “Vile Bodies,” in 1930, and the tone is a perfect match for the chill, directionless frenzy of Waugh’s personae. Go Ask Alice 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z As an epigraph to “Do No Harm,” he quotes the French doctor René Leriche: “Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.” When Brain Surgery Goes Wrong 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He chooses as the novel's epigraph, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." A Point of View: Art v politics 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z An epigraph from the sixteenth-century poet Thomas Wyatt, which Graham used for “The Errancy,” applies to her work as a whole: “Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.” Jorie Graham’s Nature Poetry 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z As described in the epigraph above, they quickly mate, lay eggs and die, disappearing from view until their offspring crawl out of the ground more than a dozen years later. Deciphering the Strange Mathematics of Cicadas [Video] 2013-05-23T14:15:09.293Z Ultimately, as an epigraph quote from the poet Edouard Glissant elegantly puts it: “Each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other.” Bookshelf: Books on Bengali Immigrants, Rogue Police Officers and Homeless Youths 2012-12-29T07:24:58Z It was the epigraph to her first meeting with Mr. Mounier, with whom she had been corresponding for a few months, blog to blog, as it were. In the Garden: Mini Urban Edens - In the Garden 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z Or whatever the opposite of an epigraph is. Andray Blatche apologizes for the effort 2012-07-18T14:43:45Z Let Carlyle’s sentence be our epigraph on Voltaire: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z That of the long poem afterwards called Anactoria has neither a title nor the Greek epigraph from Sappho. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z How strange the epigraphs look in those half-boyish hands, and what a thrill the sight of the documents gives one after the lapse of a few lusters! A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z But let me offer a more useful epigraph. Books of The Times: ?Anthill? by E. O. Wilson: Coming-of-Age Tale 2010-04-08T20:48:00Z This is both Hugh Raffles’s epigraph and the last line of his miraculous book “Insectopedia,” as inventive and wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the vast insect world itself. Books on Science: ?Insectopedia,? by Hugh Raffles 2010-03-15T22:55:00Z Of like nature, used alike for epigraph, epitaph, and familiar personal expression, is the rhymed Arabic Makotta, brief poems written in one form for eighteen hundred years, and still written. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Compare epigraph, epigram, photographic, phosphorus, graph, diagram. intend. Stories from Tagore But she no longer defended the truth of this epigraph. Lives of Celebrated Women Of nineteenth-century writers, the most admirable composer of the epigraph has been Landor, who in this, as in some other respects, may be placed in the same category with Herrick. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects The modest epigraph—“Le rime n’est pas riche”—may be attributed, with a good show of likelihood, to the same collaborator. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The common Scots saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!” might be put as epigraph on all the song-books of old France. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) This makes him extraordinarily faithful to the epigraphs of his plates. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion To mark distinctly their meaning and object, it will suffice for me to repeat their respective epigraphs. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Among them was an amphora, having the following epigraph in black paint: COUM. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Pushkin uses the passage referred to as an epigraph to the "Fountain of Baktchiserai." Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse The epigraph of Burke's pamphlet, was 'Blow ye the trumpet in Zion.' Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 The mummy bore the royal diadem, and the epigraph on the lid of the coffin declared the body which it contained to be that of "Antef, king of the two Egypts." Ancient Egypt Who could have imagined that "bag o' nails," was a corruption of the Bacchanals, which it evidently is from the rude epigraph still subjoined to the fractured classicism of the title? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 The latter bears as epigraph the passage from the gospels describing Christ's stilling of the winds. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom The common Scotch saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, "he must have had little to do that made that!" might be put as epigraph on all the song books of old France. Familiar Studies of Men and Books The modest epigraph—‘Le rime n’est pas riche’—may be attributed, with a good show of likelihood, to the same collaborator. Prince Otto, a Romance The waters and the tramp of negro feet have obliterated the epigraph, which was, they say, legible forty years ago. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I "Madrid is at heart a rude, moral town with little imagination, and the epigraphs on the walls and benches are primitive." Cæsar or Nothing How strange the epigraphs look in those half-boyish hands, and what a thrill the sight of the documents gives one after the lapse of a few lustres! The History of Pendennis They contain, according to him, mostly proper names, with devotional formulae, similar to those of the Sinaitic inscriptions and the Kufic and later epigraphs which we discovered. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The bad taste and impertinence of this epigraph are often enhanced by the slightness of the work or the gift which it commemorates. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Dr. Verneau, of the Academy, Paris, suggests that some of these epigraphs are alphabetic, while others are hieroglyphic. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I The epigraph, which was subscribed "original," was as follows: "Your popularity's on the decline: You had your triumph! now I'll have mine." Domestic Manners of the Americans He always wished to furnish me an epigraph, not like that which made Montesquieu a member of the academy. The Physiology of Taste The epigraph of this little pamphlet is ingeniously chosen, and the two lines from Shelley could scarcely be better applied than to Chopin: "He was a mighty poet—and A subtle-souled Psychologist." Life of Chopin Pascal's epigraph, "One must not get one's nourishment from it, but use it as one would an essence," is only appropriate to a certain extent. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End Your epigraph, my dear P., shows your kind and artless nature; but don't you see it is of no use? Roundabout Papers It sums up, with the closest logic, the whole history of the situation, and I may leave it to form the epigraph of this little book. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Some short epigraphs on Assyrian gems, tablets, and cylinders belong apparently to about the same period. History of Phoenicia The count seized it hastily, his eyes immediately fell upon the epigraph, and he read, "'Thou shalt tear out the dragons' teeth, and shall trample the lions under foot, saith the Lord.'" The Count of Monte Cristo |
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