Shostakovich's friend, Lev Lebedinsky, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time.

His epitaph says: “ he of clowns to learn still sought / But now they learn of him they taught .” Tarlton was the first to study natural fools and simpletons to add knowledge to his characters.

Leaving the letters, numbers and emblems exposed on the stone, the blaster can create virtually any kind of artwork or epitaph.

Of particular interest is the 11th century slab, a sleek black stone decorated with her epitaph, marking her grave at the rear of the church.

It is directly across the road from the hill where Simonides of Ceos's epitaph is engraved in stone at the top.

The last sentence of the interesting epitaph from which this phrase is taken may be quoted as a specimen of the dialect ; the stone was found in Corfinio, the ancient Corfinium, and the very perfect style of the Latin alphabet in which it is written shows that it cannot well be earlier than the last century BC: " Eite uus pritrome pacris, puus ecic lexe lifar ," " ite vos porro pacati ( cum bona pace ), qui hoc scriptum ( hbar, 3rd decl.

Leaving the letters, numbers and emblems exposed on the stone, the blaster can create virtually any kind of artwork or epitaph.

There are few grave stone monuments ( stela ), dated 2nd-3rd century BC, on which, the epitaph is written in Greek script showing that the region had been a part of the Greek language sphere, and Kosovo and Skopje region which were part of the Latin language sphere.

The epitaph on his grave stone was written by his friend Walter Savage Landor.

He died on 1 November 1724, at the deanery, Norwich, and was buried in the nave of the Norwich Cathedral, where there was a stone to his memory, with an epitaph composed by himself.

Whereas Bauer ’ s brother, Franz, is remembered both by a portrait and a memorial in Kew, Ferdinand Bauer himself has no portrait or stone to commemorate him other than a mention in Franz ’ s epitaph in St Anne ’ s Chapel in Kew: “ In the delineation of plants he united the accuracy of a profound naturalist with the skill of the accomplished artist, to a degree which has been only equalled by his brother Ferdinand .”

Above the grave, a badly eroded stone slab displays his epitaph:

In this respect particular mention should be made of the main altar of St. Elizabeth, a hanged sculpture of Immaculata, the Late Gothic altar Visit of Virgin Mary, a stone epitaph of the Reiner family, a wooden sculpture of Virgin Mary, fragments of the wall painting The Last Trial, the side altar of St. Anton Paduansky, a wall painting The Resurrection, the bronze font, the altar painting of St. Anna Metercia, Gothic Calvary, the lantern of the king Matthew, wooden polychrome sculptures, the side altar Worship of Three Kings, Neo-Gothic stone pulpit.

" Abba Abba " is the epitaph on Burgess's marble memorial stone, behind which the vessel with his remains is kept, in Monte Carlo.

In 2003 the stone was restored and moved as epitaph into the church of Hochkirch

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

From this doctrine arose the Epicurean epitaph: Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo ( I was not ; I was ; I am not ; I do not care ) – which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the Roman Empire.

An epitaph ( from Greek epitaphion " a funeral oration " from ἐπί epi " at, over " and τάφος taphos " tomb ") is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively.

" But it has been said of this passage, " Even when Maharal is eulogized, whether in David Gans ’ Zemach David or on his epitaph …, not a word is said about the creation of a golem.

His gravestone bears the simple epitaph: " Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born 25 June 1903, died 21 January 1950 "; no mention is made on the gravestone of his more famous pen-name.

He is reported to have died at Bologna of the Black Death in 1348, and an epitaph in the church of the Dominicans in which he was

The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.

An example of a complete composition is the Seikilos epitaph, which has been variously dated between the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD.

An epitaph honoring him is inscribed on his monument.

An epitaph written by Charlemagne in verse, in which he styles Adrian " father ", is still to be seen at the door of the Vatican basilica.

Pope Damasus I placed an epitaph of eight hexameters over his tomb ; the epithet " martyr " contained in them is not to be

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

The Seikilos epitaph ( 2c BC ) is a complete song ( although possibly for solo voice ).

His epitaph is ( Time the Commander of All Things ).

The Commonwealth cemetery, as is common at many such cemeteries in the world, consists of parallel rows of gravestones, each one bearing an engraving of the deceased soldier's unit emblem, his name and an epitaph from his family.

His body is left there, with his epitaph scrawled on the tag from an oxygen bottle.

On her tombstone is written: " She did it the hard way ", an epitaph that she mentioned in her memoir Mother Goddam as having been suggested to her by Joseph L. Mankiewicz shortly after they had filmed All About Eve.

The oldest known inscription that goes by the name of Phoenician is the Ahiram epitaph, engraved on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram from c. 1200 BC.

There is a memorial to him inside the church with an epitaph written by his friend, William Wordsworth.

In particular, she did not bear children, despite 12 years of marriage, and this is perhaps emphasised in her epitaph, whereby she is mentioned as having been kind to ' pregnant women '.

The first is an epitaph in which the dead man is imagined to invoke blessings on those who had buried the body, and the second records the poet's gratitude to the drowned man for having saved his own life — Simonides had been warned by his ghost not to set sail from the island with his companions, who all subsequently drowned.

All these amusing anecdotes might simply reflect the fact that he was the first poet to charge fees for his services — generosity is glimpsed in his payment for an inscription on a friend's epitaph, as recorded by Herodotus.

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The epitaph also recorded that the Princess died on Monday, 6 July 792, during the fifty-sixth year of the Daeheung era.

The epitaph recorded the year of death as 792.

He died on Christmas Eve 1453, as recorded in his epitaph, which was in the church of St Stephen Walbrook in London ( until it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 ).

The epitaph – stating that he had " secret knowledge of the stars " – had been recorded in the early 17th century, and was reinstated in the church in 1904.

The wording of the epitaph had been recorded in the early 17th century, and was reinstated in the church in 1904, some 450 years after his death.

That her death was caused by a pregnancy is recorded in an epitaph.