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Over his grave was placed a simple stone with the date of his birth and death and the words "Cor Cordium" -- heart of hearts.
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Druzbicki's (d. 1662) small work, "Meta Cordium, Cor Jesu".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The "heart of hearts," "Cor Cordium," and the ashes of the poet cremated on the Tuscan shore, lie far away, hard by the pyramid of Caius Cestius, in the grave where the loving hands of Trelawney laid them in 1823.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Thomas Perkins 1874
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He knew nought of the Skylark's ode, and nought of the Cor Cordium; but the scene by the seashore had burned itself as though with flame into his mind, and he spoke of it a thousand times if once, sitting by the edge of the sea that had killed the singer.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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English prose, when he and Byron and Leigh Hunt stood beside the funeral pyre, and libations were poured, and the 'Cor Cordium' was found inviolate among the ashes, turned all my thoughts to flame beneath the gentle autumn sky.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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English prose, when he and Byron and Leigh Hunt stood beside the funeral pyre, and libations were poured, and the 'Cor Cordium' was found inviolate among the ashes, turned all my thoughts to flame beneath the gentle autumn sky.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Leigh Hunt stood beside the funeral pyre, and libations were poured, and the _Cor Cordium_ was found inviolate among the ashes, turned all my thoughts to flame beneath the gentle autumn sky.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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_Cor Cordium_ were the words inscribed by his widow on the tomb of the poet.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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The words inscribed on Shelley's tomb -- "_Cor Cordium_" -- were Hunt's choice.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Hither, a few months later, were Shelley's own ashes brought to rest under a stone hearing the inscription: 'Car Cordium.'
The Pink Flamingo 2008
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