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Always the self-dramatizer, Wagner lifts his arm and thunders: "Let this be your epitaph - 'I struck down the mightiest talent that God ever created for the enrichment of music!'" Grandiosely he flings away the envelope containing a loan of money from her husband, but, a moment before his carriage rolls away, sends a servant back to retrieve...
...which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace and my tomb remain uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then...
...field afar," in which the poet thinks of his comrades in their graves while he is alive. But they, when I forgot and ran, Remembered and remain. It contains Housman's For My Funeral, which seems likely to endure as long as any of his work, and an epitaph for dead soldiers...
...James Montgomery ("The Constitution") Beck died. Upon his death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point of potential power. . . ." The remainder of the volume's 205 pages is devoted to a learned account of how the Constitution...
...Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison of sentimentality, he put down his own epitaph in the lines...