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The poems of Foscolo have the grace and elegance of the Greek poets; but in his "Sepulchres" the gloom of his melancholy imagination throws a funereal light over the nothingness of all things, and the silence of death is unbroken by any voice of hope in a future life.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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"Sepulchres" breathes the sweetest and most pathetic tenderness, and the brightest hopes of immorality.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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See especially the footnote in Godwin's Essay on Sepulchres that makes an analogy between "progress" in the world and in school by way of explaining his assertion that "the world forever is, and in some degree for ever must be, in its infancy" (14n10).
Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008
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At first, the crowd looked on in exultation as the blaze burnt so brightly that they could read the time on the clock of St Sepulchres Church, the hands of which had so often pointed to the hour of execution.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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At first, the crowd looked on in exultation as the blaze burnt so brightly that they could read the time on the clock of St Sepulchres Church, the hands of which had so often pointed to the hour of execution.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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At first, the crowd looked on in exultation as the blaze burnt so brightly that they could read the time on the clock of St Sepulchres Church, the hands of which had so often pointed to the hour of execution.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Printed in London by Richarde Ihones "and are to be solde ouer agaynst Saint Sepulchres Church, without Newgate."
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005
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This done euery man burieth his dead, some in Sepulchres made for the purpose, and other that haue no suche preparacion, in their strongest wall at home in their house, setting vp the cofre ther tabernacle wyse.
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Then laie thei the corps in a Carte, and cary it to the Gerrites, where the Sepulchres of all their Kynges are.
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Sepulchres are distinguished by the masters of the Jews into a deep sepulchre, which cannot be known to be a sepulchre; graves that appear not [Luke 11: 44]; and a painted sepulchre, such as were all those that were known, and to be seen.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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