Chronicles of the Tombs: A Select Collection of Epitaphs, Preceded by an Essay on Epitaphs and Other Monumental Inscriptions, with Incidental Observations on Sepulchral AntiquitiesG. Bell & sons, 1902 - 529 pages |
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... Lord of Stability , that he may give a good carved Sarcophagus to the Consecrated Enclosure in the Western Mountain of Egypt , for the votary Osiris , Lady of the House Ohranis , daughter of the priest of Mandoo Bal Snauf , son of the ...
... Lord of Stability , that he may give a good carved Sarcophagus to the Consecrated Enclosure in the Western Mountain of Egypt , for the votary Osiris , Lady of the House Ohranis , daughter of the priest of Mandoo Bal Snauf , son of the ...
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... lord of war once bath'd his barbed darts . Where are those warriors , patient of the spear ? Dust - soulless , lifeless dust - alone lies here . By Theocritus ( 13 ) : - EPITAPH ON EURYMEDON . Thou art dead , Eurymedon , And hast left ...
... lord of war once bath'd his barbed darts . Where are those warriors , patient of the spear ? Dust - soulless , lifeless dust - alone lies here . By Theocritus ( 13 ) : - EPITAPH ON EURYMEDON . Thou art dead , Eurymedon , And hast left ...
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... Lord or Page , Wherfor for us that ben [ goo ] [ Prepeth as other shal you doo , That God of his benignyte , On us have mercy and Pite , And nought rememb'r ou [ r Wykedne ] sse , Sith he has bought us of his Goodnesse . Amen . On a ...
... Lord or Page , Wherfor for us that ben [ goo ] [ Prepeth as other shal you doo , That God of his benignyte , On us have mercy and Pite , And nought rememb'r ou [ r Wykedne ] sse , Sith he has bought us of his Goodnesse . Amen . On a ...
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... Lord God who kepe hym fro pyne A thousand fowr hundryd fifty and nine . Weever records one of the date of 1460 , on John Burton and his wife , at St. Michael Bassishaw . John Burton lyeth under here , Sometimes of London , citizen and ...
... Lord God who kepe hym fro pyne A thousand fowr hundryd fifty and nine . Weever records one of the date of 1460 , on John Burton and his wife , at St. Michael Bassishaw . John Burton lyeth under here , Sometimes of London , citizen and ...
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... Lord A Mocccc lxxiij and entired in this chirche of Brokesborn abydyng the bodye of hir said husband whose soules God bryng to eberlasting blisse . Towards the close of the fifteenth century , we learn from the same authority , on a ...
... Lord A Mocccc lxxiij and entired in this chirche of Brokesborn abydyng the bodye of hir said husband whose soules God bryng to eberlasting blisse . Towards the close of the fifteenth century , we learn from the same authority , on a ...
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Page 472 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
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Page 403 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.