Examples of epistle

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The whole machinery of prefaces, dedicatory epistles and the like is designed to focus attention on the writer himself.
The display of such sentiment was entirely conventional, and it is unlikely, therefore, that these dedicatory epistles were read unequivocally or naively at face value by contemporaneous readers.
A priest would climb up there and read the epistle for the day, preach or lead the responses.
The dedicatory epistle was often used as a vehicle to express gratitude to past or present patrons while expressing hope for continued favour.
While he is doing so, the celebrant is quietly reading the epistle for himself, and the greater prelate is doing likewise at his throne.
The subdeacon is singing the epistle (with his back to the congregation of course, but let that pass).
Each poem is a verse-epistle, as it were, and together they collection of correspondence.
Davies was apparently unaware of this dedicatory epistle.
The epistle was sung by the subdeacon with his back to the congregation, the gospel was sung by the deacon facing the north wall of the sanctuary.
The writing of the curse collapses what the poem is and what it will be: an epistle sent across the ocean, both into and out of history.
The modulation of verse satire into epistle, elegy, and ode was thus a dimension of the search for the formal vehicle and ethical norms of an anti-satiric manner.
We do at least need an awareness of how the royal epistle had its own rhetorical world in which bombast and boast had a special diplomatic function.
The canon is set against all else in the rite - the bell and the silence and the rest against the all too familiar brevities of epistle and gospel.
They encourage the very fault which they should condemn by these long, prolix epistles.
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