Word: urn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland read the opening of "Hyperion," the sonnets "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"; the odes "To a Nightingale," "To Autumn," "On Melancholy," and "On a Grecian Urn"; "Fancy," "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," "Robin Hood," and "Bright Star Would I were Steadfast as Thou...
...means certain that the world would have had the authorized edition so early as the following year. In 1646, the date of Charles I's surrender to the Scotch, came the "Vulgar Errors." 1658, the year of Cromwell's death saw the publishing of Urn Burial. In 1671 Charles II visited Norwich, and, as the mayor refused the proffered honor of knighthood, the King fulfilled his intention of distinguishing some eminent citizen by dubbing Browne Sir Thomas. In 1682, three years before the death of Charles, Sir Thomas Browne departed this life. The speaker made this association of the chief...
...lecturer stated briefly the general character of "Religio Medici," "Vulgar Errors," Urn Burial," "A Letter to a Friend," and, the most fantastic of all Browne's works, the "Garden of Cyrus." He commented upon the Latin origin of much of Sir Thomas's writings, upon its quaintness, its dignity, and-when it is at its best-the solemn music of its cadences. The distinguishing qualities of seventeenth century prose were brought out, or rather suggested, by a rough comparison of Browne with Bacon, Ralegh, Hooker, Isask Walton, and Jeremy Taylor, who is Browne's only equal in his most splendid...
Naturally, after their warfare, we should be interested in the funerals of great heroes, which were very imposing and extensive. After burning the bodies on large funeral pyres covered with offerings of all sorts, the ashes were collected in a golden urn for preservation. Then followed athletic contests of all sorts, with which the ceremonies closed...