How To Use Frontispiece In A Sentence
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But, as the visual evidence of his increasingly elaborate frontispieces suggests, this was also a logical next step in Soyer's ongoing, authorial masquerade: to appear in the most exalted of guises, as
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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It was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece, with the post office occupying one wing.
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The sisters saw that I was much taken by the book as a handsome period curiosity; also that I was intrigued by the frontispiece engraving of Connop, aged eleven.
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Passerotti's Self-Portrait with Skeleton, Ecorche and Nudes, early 1580s (Warsaw University Library), is presumed to have been drawn as the frontispiece for his book.
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My copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts.
Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850
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Portmanteaus being then opened and clothes changed, Mr. Goodchild, through having no change of outer garments but broadcloth and velvet, suddenly became a magnificent portent in the Innkeeper's house, a shining frontispiece to the fashions for the month, and a frightful anomaly in the Cumberland village.
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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The name of this extremely popular Yiddish work derives from the beginning of the versicle “O maidens of Zion, go forth and gaze …” (Song of Songs 3: 11) which appears in the frontispiece after the title: חמשה חומשי תורה מגילות והפטרות בלשון אשכנז (The five books of the Pentateuch, the Megillot and the Haftarot in Yiddish).
Ze'enah U-Re'enah.
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Bibliography of his works, of which the frontispiece is a portrait of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Known for hiring some of the best artists of the day to illustrate his publications, Bell provided each volume with fine engravings, including frontispieces of contemporary actors and actresses.
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'The arbutus is particularly fond of pine-woods and light sandy soil'" Frontispiece
Flower Stories
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The frontispiece can sometimes provide another piece of valuable evidence in determining the edition or issue of a book.
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In some ways, the writhing full-page illustrations are relief to the genre-scene frontispieces.
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It came with a frontispiece showing damage caused by fascist artillery to the Goya Foundation.
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There is no denying that Jackson, half in shadow,, half in light, her unbound hair appearing as a delicate tracery of light itself around her face, serves as a fitting frontispiece for the catalog.
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Edwards's painting appeared twice, showcased as frontispiece and chapter illustration.
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French designer and engraver of vignettes, frontispieces, and decorations for books.
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The frontispiece was a coloured picture of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by amiable lions, benevolent tigers, ingratiating bears and leopards and wolves.
The Altar Steps
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At the sale of the original drawings executed by 'Phiz' for _Martin Chuzzlewit_ this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for £35.
Charles Dickens and Music
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At these words Gargantua arose and said, Praised be the good God in all things, but especially for bringing the world into that height of refinedness beyond what it was when I first came to be acquainted therewith, that now the learnedst and most prudent philosophers are not ashamed to be seen entering in at the porches and frontispieces of the schools of the Pyrrhonian, Aporrhetic, Sceptic, and Ephectic sects.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
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Blair's The Grave, "The Reunion of the Soul & the Body" and "The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life" (56-58), but does not reproduce or specifically discuss "Death's Door," and includes nine facsimiles: the frontispiece is a reduction of
Notes on ''Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman'
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This example, an oration delivered in a Jesuit school, was later printed with a frontispiece representing its visual equivalent.
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As a child, Henriette posed for her father's illustration for the frontispiece.
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The trophies and insets painted in the vertical margins of the Soane frontispiece and title page may refer to those duties.
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As for Miss B., she showed up in an elegant goffered flounce…with a frontispiece formed of a single magnificent cauliflower imbedded in mashed potatoes.
Mark Twain
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The frontispiece is a picture of the author, the Rev.C. R. Dawson, Cumberland, Md., and Rev. Gustave H. Caution, assistant to us, by the appointment of his Bishop.
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church
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The frontispiece is a photograph of the oldest woman in the world and her son, Bulgarian peasants.
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The images in the 15 black-and-white photographs, measuring roughly 24 x 20 inches in the original, are difficult to make out in their reproduction as the book's frontispiece.
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The pantograph was a movable parallelogram that could be mounted on a drawing board or stationed atop a table, as in the frontispiece to Scheiner's Pantographice.
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Rational Review
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Moreover, the identification of the now celebrated and no longer pseudonymous writer with his text was emphasized by an engraved frontispiece which reproduced the head and shoulders of Daniel Maclise's recent portrait of him.
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I have pasted over the frontispiece a drawing of Yeats by the Senior Yeats which this edition does not reprint from The Trembling of the Veil.
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With a poem named "Europe," we should scarcely expect for a frontispiece the Ancient of Days, in unapproached grandeur, setting his "compass upon the face of the Earth," -- a vision revealed to the designer at the top of his own staircase.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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'Phiz' for Martin Chuzzlewit this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for L35.
Charles Dickens and Music
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A photograph of the author forms the frontispiece to the book.
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The first illustration was a colour frontispiece entitled ‘Chemical Industry, Upheld by Pure Science, Sustains the Production of Man's Necessities.’
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The facade of the house was even grander than the back and its frontispiece was an immense wraparound porch.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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The portrait of Signorelli in the frontispiece is the half of this painting.
Luca Signorelli
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For those of us who were taught in grade school to revere him and in college to shrug him off, the beard is an obstacle to fresh acquaintance, and Newton Arvin has wisely chosen a frontispiece in which the forty-eight-year-old man is obscured only by burnsides.
Longfellow
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There is a big granite basso-relievo in the frontispiece of the memorial which is 41.8 metres long, 5.4 metres high.
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It is, in other words, a credulous hodge-podge of all the older witch and devil tales that could be packed into its duodecimo pages; tales made vivid by its startling frontispiece and the crude but awful woodcuts that adorn its text.
A Modest Inquiry Into The Nature Of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706
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The frontispiece was a photograph of Captain Jim himself, standing at the door of the lighthouse, looking across the gulf.
Anne's House of Dreams
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A photograph of the author forms the frontispiece to the book.
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Yet the double-page spread of frontispiece and title page for Konstantin Biebl's collection of poems, With a Ship Importing Tea and Coffee, would have been a winner in the Bauhaus.
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The Frontispiece shows the high altar of Westminster Abbey vested for Lent in a frontal, frontlet, and dossal of white linen.
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All of his six or so novels have a map as frontispiece from which one can see that much of the street plan has survived.
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His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call.
A History of English Literature
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Owning a photograph of the queen or of your party leader gave a new, direct form of association with national life, and many cheap biographies had real photographs mounted as frontispieces to suggest an intimate relationship.
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The frontispiece is a coarsely executed wood cut, divided into six compartments, and representing the six days of the creation.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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The one certain attribution to Dürer is this frontispiece, published in 1492.
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Indeed, a photograph of Pinka posing as Flush in a Victorian interior serves as the book's frontispiece.
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[Return to the letter] 9 Kirkup’s portrait drawing of Severn is the frontispiece in Sharp.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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Inside I found a frontispiece of the sort once sees in books of fairy tales - it depicts a boy and his dog at the gates of something like a castle.
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The frontispiece to Hokusai's Illustrated Manual on Coloring of 1848 shows a fanatical painter holding five brushes in feet, hands, and mouth, all at work painting.
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The book is in eminently "bad style," and, with the assistance of the portrait upon the frontispiece, will to a great extent destroy those charming ideas which romance suggested of "la belle rebelle ....
Current Literature
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As a frontispiece, the book reproduces a plate by Albrecht Durer from his 1498 Apocalypse of Saint John, in which the picture of a book prefigures millennial revelations.
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The image shows a campus with lush green lawns, classical architecture and a brick frontispiece displaying a sign that reads ‘State College’.
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Images are from the frontispiece to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.
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At these words Gargantua arose and said, Praised be the good God in all things, but especially for bringing the world into that height of refinedness beyond what it was when I first came to be acquainted therewith, that now the learnedst and most prudent philosophers are not ashamed to be seen entering in at the porches and frontispieces of the schools of the Pyrrhonian, Aporrhetic,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The first was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece.
