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  • He has a recording of organ music from the Basilica entitled A Dedicatory Recital.

    San Francisco Sentinel 2009

  • In Syria Galland was unable to buy a copy of The Nights: as he expressly states in his Epistle Dedicatory, il a fallu le faire venir de Syrie.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Random Calliope will make available and free to all his "Dedicatory Gatsby" pearls!

    Second Life's art M.O.M gets new digs; parties on... Bettina Tizzy 2007

  • Random Calliope will make available and free to all his "Dedicatory Gatsby" pearls!

    Archive 2007-09-01 Bettina Tizzy 2007

  • But a kind of continuation of the Tales of my Landlord had been recently attempted by a stranger, and it was supposed this Dedicatory Epistle might pass for some imitation of the same kind, and thus putting enquirers upon a false scent, induce them to believe they had before them the work of some new candidate for their favour.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • [72] Epistle Dedicatory to the Heads of Colleges, etc., at Oxford, p. 8.

    Life of Dr Owen 1965

  • The young scholar, returning from that European tour which to the imaginative and educated American is the great romance, sits down in Bowdoin College in Maine, where he is Professor, and writes the "Epistle Dedicatory" to the "worthy and gentle reader."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

  • The "Epistle Dedicatory," signed "J.E.," mentioned by Mr. Wyatt as prefixed to the Dialogue on Hobbes '_State of

    Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 Various

  • Dedicatory at all; till as now of late perswaded thereunto by my friends, I have boldly enterprised to offer the same to your Lordship, who as I trust wil accept the same, than if it did entreat of some serious and lofty matter, light and merry, yet the effect thereof tendeth to a good and vertuous moral, as in the following Epistle to the reader may be declared.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • The Prince encouraged him to proceed with his translation, and about 1609 appeared the first twelve books of the _Iliad_ (including the seven formerly published) with a fine "Epistle Dedicatory," to "the high-born Prince of men, Henry."

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

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