epicedium

Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Nor were men wanting among ourselves who had so steeped their brains in London literature as to mistake Cockneyism for European culture, and contempt of their country for cosmopolitan breadth of view, and who, owing all they had and all they were to democracy, thought it had an air of high-breeding to join in the shallow epicedium that our bubble had burst.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

-- Felicia Hemans, her lyre musically blending the song of sounding streams with the spontaneous melody of the "feathered choir" composing an epicedium to the memory of departed days, and proving her glorious claims to the poetic character, "creation's heir."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Various

Nor were men wanting among ourselves who had so steeped their brains in London literature as to mistake Cockneyism for European culture, and contempt of their country for cosmopolitan breadth of view, and who, owing all they had and all they were to democracy, thought it had an air of high-breeding to join in the shallow epicedium that our bubble had burst.

Abraham Lincoln, 1864-1865 1909

_The Tears of Peace_, which contains his finest work, is in honour of Prince Henry -- a worthy work on a worthy subject, which was followed up later by an epicedium on the prince's lamented death.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

European culture, and contempt of their country for cosmopolitan breadth of view, and who, owing all they had and all they were to democracy, thought it had an air of high-breeding to join in the shallow epicedium that our bubble had burst.

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855

Countenances of such amazement were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation, he had palmed some abstruse, monkish epicedium upon his astounded auditors.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

Honourable Members start to their feet; stray bullets singing epicedium even here, shivering in with window-glass and jingle.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Imagination pictures to him his funeral pomp -- the grave they are digging for him -- the lamentations that will accompany him to his last abode-the epicedium that surviving friendship may dictate; he persuades himself that these melancholy objects will affect him as painfully even after his decease, as they do in his present condition, in which he is in full possession of his senses.

The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756