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I note in his "Monody," written at the time of the death of his friend, the poet, T. Buchanan Read
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini George Henry Boker 1856
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Lyttelton grieved sincerely for her, and wrote his affecting 'Monody' on the subject.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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His 'Monody' expresses real grief in an artificial style, but has some stanzas as natural in the expression as they are pathetic in the feeling.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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Lyttelton grieved sincerely for her, and wrote his affecting 'Monody' on the subject.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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His 'Monody' expresses real grief in an artificial style, but has some stanzas as natural in the expression as they are pathetic in the feeling.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Another "Monody,"'Lines written on returning from the Funeral of the R.H. C.J. Fox, Friday Oct'. 10, 1806, addressed to Lord
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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"The 'Monody' is in too many paragraphs, which makes it unintelligible to me; if any one else understands it in the present form, they are wiser; however, as it cannot be rectified till my return, and has been already published, even publish it on in the collection -- it will fill up the place of the omitted epistle.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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The first, Benjamin Carr's dignified "Dead March and Monody for General Washington" was ready for performance in Philadelphia a mere 12 days later, with musical offerings continuing to appear up and down the Eastern seaboard throughout the winter of 1800.
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This concept of an "Aristocracy of Genius," as she calls it in her Monody on the Death of the Late Queen of France, is found throughout Robinsons works.
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Her poems, notably her Elegy on Captain Cook (1780) and Monody on the Death of Major Andre (1781), were greatly admired, as was her sentimental verse novel, Louisa (1784), which ran to five editions in Britain and one in North America.
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