| 单词 | memento mori |
| 例句 | My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The tombs and sarcophagi are beautiful, in their way, but also serve as a kind of memento mori in the largest sense. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z This suits a production that is, in its way, a sustained, epic memento mori. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Like much of Burgers’ work, it’s a visual delight and a meditational memento mori. Burgers’ ‘Eternalism’ : flower power with philosophical twist 2013-01-10T22:12:03Z If Forever Now is optimistic, then Paglen’s project is a bracing memento mori. Forever now: What sound or video would you send into space? 2013-07-12T01:45:36Z Model: Based on the medieval memento mori, the watch offers a sobering message, “Remember you will die,” across its hands, along with a mirrored dial to remind its wearer that life is fleeting. A Watch With Snob Appeal for Under $1,000? Six Watch Insiders Offer Picks 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The Church preached memento mori–remember that you must die, that you will be meat for worms. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The Charnel House is the offensive and defensive weapon deployed: memento mori, indictment, tribute to sacrifice, howl of despair, and proof positive of lyric poetry after Auschwitz. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z The show’s most engaging piece may be its interactive memento mori, “Wasting Time.” High jinks and mysteries from Seattle sculptors Takamori, Wicklander 2013-02-28T23:47:25Z The same year Mishima published that memento mori, he also wrote “The Frolic of the Beasts.” Review | Decades after a volatile life and a brutal death, a Japanese writer is back in the spotlight 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z This picture sat in the background of our middle-class colored Sunday dinners like a memento mori, and we made fun of it the way you joke about things that truly scare you. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z "There will be some who will see these not just as works of art, but a chance to buy a memento mori of the credit crunch." Will tough times trigger corporate art selloff? 2010-08-25T18:46:00Z “As a memento mori, we used to show a candle, but a cigarette is so much more modern. Yet it’s the same thing—you see time burning.” Christian Marclay’s Sidewalk Animations 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z What he’s talking about is memento mori, or, in Norman Klein’s word, an imago, a trace of some lost landscape, encoded in the present tense. 'All Night Menu' uncovers a hidden history of Los Angeles 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Maybe it was a memento mori — a poignant reminder that vacation doesn’t last forever. On Guadeloupe, beautiful beaches — with a backstory 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It fixes a steady gaze on the viewer, a memento mori stuck somewhere between life and death. Sex, Surrealism and de Sade: The Forgotten Female Artist Leonor Fini 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Haneke begins the movie with a flash-forward sequence which impresses on our minds and retinas a devastating memento mori motif, governing how we react to everything that succeeds it. Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z Between this, “Titanic” turning 25 and wide-legged jeans coming back in style, culture is a memento mori minefield for children of the ’90s lately. American Girl says the ’90s are ancient history. American girls agree. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z And as a memento mori it is terribly effective. The Death of Ivan Ilyich/The Devil by Leo Tolstoy ? review 2011-07-28T09:00:00Z Homemade cartoons, coded languages, recycled surfboards, futuristic Realism, revisionist histories, cultural mash ups, haunting memento mori and loaded abstractions come in all shapes and sizes. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Both are examples of the memento mori, a reminder of death’s inevitability. Galleries: ‘Alive and Present, ‘Enduring’ The combination of new and antiquated could descend into gimmickry, but Mr. Kurland’s approach feels like a deadpan update of the classic memento mori, in which perishable items serve as reminders of human transience. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Getting On, set in a hospital eldercare ward, is an often brutally funny memento mori. 2013 TV in Review: The Rise of Craft-Brewed Television 2013-12-10T13:50:07Z In one chapter, Raffles travels to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago whose beaches comprise a grisly memento mori, covered with “blubberstones” — gravel mingled with rendered fat, vestiges of the mass killings of seals and whales. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Indeed this seems like a very northern European show at the start – all those gothic memento mori and protestant warnings against vanity and vice. Death: A Self-Portrait – review 2012-11-11T00:05:30Z Most literally it’s a memento mori, a reminder of the inevitable onrush of infirmity and death. The Week in Arts: A Renaissance Gem, Isabelle Huppert, Uta Hagen 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z There also were his reference to memento mori — the symbols of death that is all around us. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z It can’t have been easy to find the right moments and tone for songs in a double-sided story like this, where each joke is also a memento mori, and vice versa. ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Review: What’s an Anagram for ‘Wonderful’? 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z A baleful memento mori, this twosome promises horror to vain and faithless sinners. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z The piece served as a memento mori to the tens of thousands of lives lost to the drug trade. An artist's imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z When medieval painters incorporated memento mori into their compositions—the skull dabbed into a portrait of courtly gents, say—they were proclaiming, “Beware earthly delights, for hell is everlasting!” Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s a carefully tended fuzziness to the movie itself, like a memento mori sketched in pastel. | 'Beginners': Remembering When Dad Came Out 2011-06-02T22:13:02Z At its exit is a photograph from three decades later of another, crumpled pair of glistening red Adidas shorts: a drapery study, a memento mori. The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z And yet, starting from memento mori, Louie somehow manages to end up in the same place: smack in the middle of life. Louie Watch: Yin and Yangtze 2012-09-28T19:03:18Z As with Dutch memento mori, this too is vanity: After he shot his pictures, the fish were thrown away and doused with bleach to deter scavengers. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s the Mexican Day of the Dead meets a Dutch master’s memento mori. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z In these darkly whimsical works, genres collapse: Landscape meets still life by way of memento mori. L.A. artist Carl Cheng's darkly amusing supply kits for the apocalypse 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z They feel more like a memento mori in this show, a reminder all our lives will one day be yesterday’s news. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z But his inspiration — Frida Kahlo and Mexico’s Day of the Dead — hit a chord of memento mori, a style that is appearing in fashion and the subject of three current exhibitions in France. Special Report: Haute Couture: Skeletons, Family and Religion 2010-07-06T17:38:00Z Rife with half-seen images of pinups and starlets, gaudy yet bleak, these works are, for the most part, spooky memento mori to decaying glamour and beauty. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Her philosophy is captured in the book’s title, “Memento,” a derivative of the Latin “memento mori,” which suggests being mindful of your death. Animal Doctor: How pet owners, and other animals, grieve a loss 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Some of its most fervent adherents collect the bones of small animals, as a form of memento mori. Cottagecore, cluttercore, goblincore — deep down, it’s about who we think we are 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Her death-obsessed character functions in the film as a kind of perversely adorable memento mori, deflecting the looming specter of sentimentality and providing a constant reminder that not all change is for the good. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z It seems to promise a bald memento mori in the form of a fortune cookie. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Repeated images of the fruits and vegetable debris from producing the sound effects become like memento mori. Movie Review: An Engineer’s Sonic Ordeals in ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ 2013-06-14T00:57:13Z The "dark" in dark academia is represented by literal shadows and artfully-arranged skulls and daggers, evoking a sense of memento mori, an undercurrent of loss and threat. Dark Academia and debt: University thrillers are the literary subgenre of the student loan crisis 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z But the most recent paintings, which include the three “Old Books” and another titled “History Book Laying on a Table,” may be taken as modern-day memento mori. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z But Beall wants his drawings to carry not just the weight of their stories but also of their pattern and texture and paint — memento mori employed to create a chapel of abstract reflection. Of the 63 people killed during '92 riots, 23 deaths remain unsolved — artist Jeff Beall is mapping where they fell 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z In a sense, the book is a memento mori for the parallel existences of those — the suicides, the overdoses, the lives lost to burnout and poverty — that they left behind, that we all left behind. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree What is an un-Botoxed cat if not a walking, purring memento mori? John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Even the prettiest gems, like pink diamonds worked into cherry blossoms, are undercut by battling snakes, the survivor dark and sinuous, the other a lifeless trickle of diamonds, the whole seen as a memento mori. Jack Du Rose: Snakes and Gems Spell Danger 2011-11-21T14:01:27Z No matter how grand or mean your station, the message was, memento mori: Remember that you must die. Life Is More Like a Simulation. On These Shows, So Is Death. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z What she digitally collects aren't just innocuous mementos, but memento mori that will test her resolve and threaten her life. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z It reminded me that life is short, death is nigh and a little humor can help us seize the day just as well as a memento mori. Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z This play is in essence a sustained memento mori that asks us to see the skull beneath the human skin as a reminder of what ultimately links us all. Review: ‘Underneath,’ an Embrace of Irish Ghosts 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The paper-white, easily identified “CARTON OF EGGS,” nearly a stand-in for its subject, is pop philosophy, while “DRAWING TABLE,” crumpled unrecognizably in the bottom half of its box, is a tart memento mori. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Detached from its context, it becomes a memento mori, a reminder of the fragility of life on the coast. Things they lost in a tsunami 2013-03-10T21:00:00Z But, yes, I guess you could say it is a memento mori, though it would never occur to me to use that term, since it might sound a little bit sentimental. The Carpetbagger: Michael Haneke Finds His Brando 2012-12-19T17:06:21Z Gallery founder Bennett Roberts describes the installation as a curious art historical memento mori: "It's troubling and fascinating. It breaks the mold." Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z One room focuses on the contemplation of mortality through artistic memento mori, such as skulls placed at the center of still-life paintings. London show views death through artists' eyes 2012-11-14T14:31:10Z And in a revival, memento mori is always the premise. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z A mask, as if from a memento mori parade in Venice, was another edgy addition. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z Vera’s very busy, very strange day, a day of confrontations, wily falsehoods and refusals, is a kind of memento mori. 3 Smaller, Surprising Movies from the Venice Film Festival 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The fate of the miner is lost to time, but the discovery, Mr. Underwood said, “left me with an image of memento mori.” They Live Alone in Ghost Towns 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z And indeed, Ebenstein writes that she hopes the book “might itself serve as a memento mori of sorts.” Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z There were two memento mori exhibitions in Paris museums this year. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z For all its memento mori philosophy, the show is a hoot, as adept with physical comedy as with its quips — watching Lyonne navigate a flight of stairs on which she’s met several demises is priceless. ‘Russian Doll’: Programmer, Debug Thyself 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z A subway pole is now a memento mori. Coronavirus anxiety is everywhere, and there is no cure 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z With its draped garlands of skulls and floor-to-ceiling mountains of human bones, entering the ossuary feels like being immersed in the world’s greatest single work of memento mori art. Overnighter: In Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Contemporary Art Amid Medieval Charm 2010-11-15T18:15:00Z “All photographs are memento mori,” as Susan Sontag wrote in “On Photography.” How Teju Cole's new novel literally reframes the Black experience 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The intoning of memento mori seeds a joyful duty toward the pursuit of human longevity as an act of grateful humility before the wonder of life. Bloodthirsty Silicon Valley vampires won't stop: It's time to stake our claim 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z The death trip is a memento mori, that old medieval art tradition, which reminds us that we all die. Author Jeff Sharlet explains why "neofascists are not going to stop" 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z A dire bout with esophageal cancer, with its attendant brutal treatments and radical reprioritization of life, seemed to force memento mori and carpe diem into an urgent competition for dominance — and the latter clearly won. Review | A long walk from D.C. to New York traverses history, beauty and trash 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Two of the figures are packed inside syringes to memorialize drug victims, while a toy-size cemetery with an open grave serves as a memento mori. Review | In the galleries: Images of consciousness and the expanding universe 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Tasked with delivering the film’s final word, the great Harriet Walter is chilling in relaying the power of the “memento mori.” Review: 'Burial' unearths gods, monsters and humanity in the depths of World War II 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z As I’ve grown older, the darker memento mori aspect of my father’s sage advice has come to seem increasingly urgent. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Updating the classical memento mori, a reminder of mortality, the Tennessee artist depicts toys, ornaments and Halloween decorations. Review | In the galleries: Fresh perspectives on the powerful presence of trees 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “Home/Land” certainly has a memento mori quality, but it’s not depressing. Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z And yet, at the same time, we recognize that these stories are projections, memento mori. Camus meets Chandler in Japan, via the hall-of-mirrors thriller 'My Annihilation' 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z That is because since 2017, she has made it her mission to revive the practice of memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning “Remember your death.” Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Dismissing the possibility of eliminating nuclear weapons, he suggests that they can serve as a memento mori, a reminder of death that makes us cherish our fleeting lives. Does Optimism on Climate Change Make You Pro-Trump? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z These are a different sort of memento mori: Plastic is cheap and perishable, yet at the molecular level nearly indestructible. Review | In the galleries: Fresh perspectives on the powerful presence of trees 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The piece is astonishingly beautiful, a floral still life as memento mori — a reminder of the transience of beauty and life itself — but one that also enacts its own passing. Review: Clay, staged to decay — a memento mori — in Phoebe Cummings' 'Cut' at A-B Projects 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z With Toledo’s passing, the exhibition functions as another sort of memento mori. How Mexican painter Francisco Toledo paid tribute to Mexico's missing with ceramics 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Since last spring, Ms. Ebenstein has conducted a series of memento mori classes online, in which students explore the global history of representations of death, and then create their own. Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z In a two-channel video, he shows a seamless scan of the building’s interiors as residents had adapted them over the building’s nearly five decades in existence — a stirring memento mori. Cities around the world are erupting in protest — an architecture biennial examines why 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z They’re the scars left by prior shootings and a tangible memento mori. Opinion | Lawmakers who refuse to address gun violence are darkening American life 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z It is a memento mori, a drawing that looks like a carving. ‘Finland’s Munch’: the unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z In design, their gratuitous beauty humbles us into reflections on the divine; in cruelty of purpose, they are a memento mori, a symbol of ineluctable fate embodied in the futile wriggling of an ensnared fly. Letter of Recommendation: Spider Webs 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Sister Aletheia began her memento mori project on Twitter, where she shared daily meditations for more than 500 days in a row. Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z They will keep us in permanent captivity as a memento mori, as a reminder to the world of what happens to all those who try to leave the EU. Theresa May opens main Brexit debate after three Commons defeats – Politics live 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But my looming 30th birthday was the memento mori I needed to revive an abandoned childhood dream. Late bloomers: Adult ballet classes bring the joy of dance at any age 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Her famous skulls, she insisted, were not memento mori: “The bones seem to cut sharply to the centre of something that is very keenly alive on the desert, even tho’ it is empty and untouchable.” From Lawrence of Arabia to Breaking Bad: the desert as a cultural oasis 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Historically, the theory of “memento mori”, intended to remind people of the inevitability of death, has had little to do with selling designer trousers. Gucci dances with death in high-glamour horror show 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Sister Aletheia continues to promote the practice on social media, and she has published a memento mori prayer journal and a devotional that opens with the sentence, “You are going to die.” Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z In this way and in others, the memento mori are clearly somewhat personal. A Visionary Photographer Reaches a Career Pinnacle 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z He looks at the doomsday clock as a kind of modern-day memento mori — a compelling, easily understood reminder that time is limited, he says. The Doomsday Clock is the gimmick we need to think about nuclear tensions 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z One by one, the other stargazers line up to peer at the stellar memento mori. New Telescope "Gives Back the Sky" to City-Dwellers 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z I also keep each year’s diary as a sort of memento mori. Am I being followed by a thief sucking things from my suitcase one by one? | Brigid Delaney's diary 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Sister Aletheia’s project has reached Catholics all over the country, via social media, a memento mori prayer journal — even merchandise emblazoned with a signature skull. Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Microwaveable mug cakes for one are a memento mori with rainbow sprinkles. Perspective | I tried a microwaveable mug cake for one and fell into a deep abyss of despair 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The home was stuffed with memento mori, among them skulls carved out of ivory and alabaster as well as a 16-inch-tall bronze skeleton. Kenneth Jay Lane, popular designer known for replications of priceless gems, dies at 85 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z If nothing else, my magnet is a useful memento mori: a reminder that the future is farther than it looks, and that progress can always slip away. I hacked my body for a future that never came 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Other exhibits include 17th-century memento mori portraits and a poignant photograph of the Labour party strategist Philip Gould. National Portrait Gallery buys Tracey Emin's Death Mask 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Philosophical puzzle, memento mori, bleak joke on the nature of existence: interpret it however you want, but Hamlet lifting a skull is one of the defining dramatic images of all time. Alas, poor Yorick! The shocking life of theatre's greatest skull 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He then posted the details online as an irrefutable memento mori. Ai Weiwei’s Triumphant Return 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z We don’t want to be kept alive as a memento mori to others. Margaret Drabble: ‘I am not afraid of death. I worry about living’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z But in the mid-1800s photography was becoming increasingly popular and affordable - leading to memento mori photographic portraiture. Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography - BBC News 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z To Malcolm Brocklehurst, however, the celebration of his own life he has planned is as much a memento mori as the most reverent Anglican rite. Happy funerals: A celebration of life? - BBC News 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s turned into more of an embarrassing memento mori. Here's Why People Are So Upset About the New Halo 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z November, which happens to be the month of my birthday, became a memento mori: an annual observance of my projected end. Living With Cancer: Gravy Days 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Tall, broad, with a trim beard, Bouke de Vries scarcely looks the scholarly sort who would spend his days obsessing over fragments of delicate porcelain or composing fragile memento mori under bell jars. Tempest in a Teacup 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Trinkets of memento mori - literally meaning "remember you must die" - took several forms, and existed long before Victorian times. Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography - BBC News 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Barely a family lives out of sight of a memento mori – a poster of a lost loved-one, a bullet-riddled wall or a partially destroyed building. Leaks Claim 40 ISIS Cells Are Waiting To Strike Lebanon And for an industry founded on principles of constant progress, I saw these permanent pledges as a memento mori not just for digital mortality, but the inevitable death of every one of these companies. Tech tattoos: do you love Pac-Man enough to get it inked on your bum? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that many graves bore the epitaph “memento mori” — remember that you will die. Op-Ed Contributors: The Graves of Forgotten New Yorkers 2014-03-18T23:57:15Z At first the KS was a painless purple memento mori, but more spots appeared higher up his leg and soon came to clog the lymph channels that drained that leg. The Dignity of a Porn Star 2013-09-09T12:45:42.510Z However, for this particular meditation on memento mori the emphasis wasn’t so much on death as on the life of the world to come. The Mosaic of Human Origins 2013-04-17T13:45:14.013Z An aged monk on crutches, possibly the Saint Macarius, points to this memento mori. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Strong ale was ablution— Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full flowing bowl Was the saving of his soul, And port was celestial glory. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z After a few visitations, these coffins would probably excite just about as much of the memento mori sensation, as the same number of meal chests. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z It was quite natural, a commonplace of Havana; but rather than a picture of familiar life, it resembled the memento mori of a grotto. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The memento mori, spoken to humanity as well as the individual, was a sting that never ceased to pain, the crown of medi�val knowledge and consciousness. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The estimate, the highest of the week, reflected the previous highest price, 8 million pounds paid for another of the German artist’s photo-based “memento mori” subjects at Sotheby’s in February 2008. Richter Candle Painting Fetches Record $16.6 Million in London 2011-10-14T18:53:01Z I have," replied Pan Michael,—"in those words which I hear in this place daily, and repeat, and which I desire to repeat till my death, memento mori. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Royalty has always its memento mori, no doubt, but not always under the same forms. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z I stroked the flat, drooping wings, and said, "It come? from Egypt, the land of mummies and graves; it bears a memento mori on its back, and a miserere in its plaintive voice." The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z It would be novel, economical, and moral; a kind of memento mori—a death's head at the feast! A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Psha!" said he, "that ever a fine woman like you, Helen, should wish to appear in her husband's eyes little better than a constant memento mori! A Wife's Duty A Tale 2011-02-17T03:00:19.313Z This had been the second emphatic memento mori--after an interval of twenty years! Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z The idea occurred to her that she would buy herself a sort of memento mori, something to remind her not to be a weak craven female thing again—nestling against men's shoulders like May Swayne. Manslaughter It was a message from another world, a memento mori, which could not be thrust aside. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 Good health on the road generally, though we see a grave occasionally, which reminds us of the admonition, "memento mori," and beneath this inhospitable soil are hearts once virtuous ambition. Journal of a Trip to California Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850 Frightened perhaps to have such a memento mori under her royal eyes, her Majesty had angrily forbidden the young prince's coming into England. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The initials of her name, M. H. are smoked upon the ceiling as a kind of memento mori to the next inhabitant. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency But man—we, scaffold of score brittle bones; Who breathe, from groundlong babyhood to hoary Age gasp; whose breath is our memento mori— What bass is our viol for tragic tones? Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published I keep it; and, once in a while, I read it over—not as a memento mori exactly, but rather as a memento of my own good fortune, for which I should continually give thanks. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) You will recall, as I pronounce these words, the memento mori of the Ancients, their custom of exhibiting a skeleton at the feast, in order to remind the banqueters of the fate that awaited them. The Essentials of Spirituality This additional memento mori from the lion was not lost on Captain Woodhouse; it immediately put him in mind that he had committed an act of imprudence in stirring. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals Nothing so effectually writes memento mori! on the cheek of beauty as this ridiculous and culpable practice. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Then, truly, wert thou a shining light, and high aloft in the room-gloaming burned thy clear crest like a star—during its midnight silence, a memento mori of which our spirit was not afraid. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Feuerbach teaches that the memento mori of reason meets us everywhere in the spiritual God's acre of literature. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Strong ale was ablution— Small beer, persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Strong ale was ablution; Small beer, persecution; A dram was memento mori; But a full flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory! Robert Burns How To Know Him The place is too modern for memento mori and the hour-glass and the skull. Certain Personal Matters I understood in that moment that affecting doctrine of the nothingness of man, which coloured mediaeval thought so strangely: like the monk of the cloister I also had before me my memento mori. The Quest of the Simple Life It was one of the first conditions of the Revival of Reason that the dreary memento mori and its hateful emblems should be deliberately effaced. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues These memento mori are salutary in an age of assurance when, looking at the pictures of Cézanne, we feel, not inexcusably, that we are high above the mud and malaria. Art When we unexpectedly meet this memento mori, when it is nature and not man that speaks to our soul, the impression we receive is much deeper. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy Need is to repeat without ceasing the memento mori. Tragic Sense Of Life The admission of California as a free State was a sort of perpetual memento mori to the slave-power. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Yet, the memento mori—"the sun is cooling …. it is dying!" of the Western Trappists of Science resounds as loud as it ever did. Five Years of Theosophy "Yes," said the diplomatist, "Spicca is a living memento mori; he occasionally reminds men of death by killing them." Saracinesca You may have heard for this long while he was dieing of the ——; he now come abroad and look a divel, or at least a sad memento mori. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 The memento mori must be applied to all else. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 But this, be it understood, is only when the stone is irretrievably beyond memento mori service, and on the clear condition that it is employed in the furtherance of religious work. In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious They are to be placed side by side, the young child and the old withered woman, —— a skull and cross-bones could hardly be a more significant memento mori! Yesterdays with Authors I make as good use of it as many a man doth of a death's-head or a memento mori. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The withered, shrunken, one-eyed, toothless, hairless Cuticle; with a trunk half dead—a memento mori to behold! White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Two men, wearing black cloaks, would lead the horse by means of new handkerchiefs passed through the bridoon rings of its bridle, handkerchiefs which would become their perquisites and memento mori. Snake and Sword A Novel To hang at their beds head for a memento mori— Crac. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 Whatever you do, memento mori—remember to rise betimes in the morning. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 I never enter this place, but it serves as a memento mori to me. Inns and Taverns of Old London Rats abounded in the ancient building she inhabited, and one of these had managed to ensconce itself within her favourite memento mori. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 We see so many sable signs of woe, Each, with mute voice, memento mori saith; As if our town that erst has sparkled so Were passing through the vale and shade of death. Verses and Rhymes By the Way "It was a memento mori then, I suppose," replies the other. Nature and Human Nature The memento mori when I would fain forget. At the Mercy of Tiberius Shuttered, silent, abandoned, it stood like a harsh memento mori of human hopes. Huntingtower Doctor Peets will be glad to exhibit this memento mori to all who care to call. Wolfville Days It was like the memento mori of the old Roman;—as though some one pointed in the midst of my bliss to the sword hung over my head by a thread. O'Conors of Castle Conor Father and I found it useful... a sort of memento mori. The Naturewoman Out of ten captains, but one is in the dilemma, and he, poor devil, is always kept at regimental headquarters, as a sort of memento mori, to the young men as they join. The Deerslayer Frightened perhaps to have such a memento mori under her royal eyes, her Majesty had angrily forbidden the young Prince's coming into England. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne But that is not quite what I meant: what I mean is that I caught a kind of glimpse of the meaning of death and all that—the skull and cross-bones, the ~memento mori~. Manalive Strong ale was ablution, Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full-flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns This self-admonition, like a memento mori or mortalis es, must be, in my opinion, a very dangerous enemy to flattery: indeed, a weight sufficient to counterbalance all the false praise of the world. A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2 |
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