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Newman damns Liszt's music when he says that it closely resembles his life. Liszt pronounced his own tragic epitaph when after an unusually flattering ovation he once said: "I would gladly give up all this . . . if I could only produce one really creative work...
...gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia or strumming on his lyre. When he stabs himself he gasps his own epitaph: ''What a great artist dies...
...weekly political story in News Of The World has long been the paper's only claim to respectability. For years these serious articles have been amazingly sound and often just as amazingly forehanded. They are a lasting epitaph to that quality in Lord Riddell's personality which made him the companion and confidant of Big People...
...influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature, be set up in my memory or name in any place or at any time; that no obituary, memorial, portrait or biography of me, nor any letters written to or by me be printed or published...
Pigneau de Béhaine, and French troops, Nguyen phua Anh reconquered Annam and Cochin-China and made himself Emperor under the name Gia Long. When the bishop died, Gia Long built him a great temple and wrote his epitaph. Some of the Nguyens turned Catholic, remained true to the memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from...