Examples of epitaph

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The deadliness of the written word is best epitomized in the numerous epitaphs which combine mineralization and textual entropy.
Hellenistic literary epitaphs, however, repeatedly dramatise the moment of reading - the representation of the poet's gaze at the grave of a famous man or at a strange inscription.
The epitaph detailed her lineage and listed all nine of her children, making sure that esquires, knights and baronets were all given their correct titles.
The opening epitaph to this epilogue indicates the practical and conceptual concessions that experimenters who worked with the decerebrate organism made on a daily basis.
In these days few are so biassed by party or sectarian bitterness as to grudge an epitaph to virtue and calamity in times gone by.
The riddle solved; the signs recouped for referentiality; an epitaph instaurated.
If so, does this not perhaps underline the epitaph that twentieth-century art music virtually achieved?
Poetry, he implies, is all epitaph and elegy.
The name and date, carved into the pear woodblock like an epitaph, point to the picture's status as a sign.
The publication of collections of letters and sermons was a much more effective means of distributing a prelate's scholarly work, and these often included a portrait and verse epitaph.
If that be so the control of the monuments and epitaphs is in the hands in the first place of the rector.
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