Read full poem →FRONTISPIECE. Gateway with eclipse. A reduction of plate 70; from
"JERUSALEM."
Dictionary Entry
An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
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Poetry examples for “frontispiece”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"The blessed Damozel leaned out" . . . Frontispiece
Read full poem →Gabriel Rossetti: a Record and a Study J while the Rossetti
portrait, chosen for frontispiece, is an enlarged copy by
Bierstadt process of the original photograph of 1862.
Read full poem →and folly! Is there no God? Who, then, unrolled the blue
seroll, and threw upon its high frontispiece the legible
gleamings of immortality? Who fashioned this yreen earth,
Read full poem →Nasmith's Catalogue, p. 40, as 'a parchment book in folio neatly written,
and ornamented with a frontispiece richly illuminated, containing Chaucer's
Troilus, in four [_error for_ five] books.' It is a fine folio MS., 12
Read full poem →Chaucer on horseback, as one of the pilgrims, occurs in the Ellesmere MS.;
an engraving of it appears as a frontispiece to Todd's Illustrations of
Chaucer. A small full-length picture of Chaucer occurs in the initial
Read full poem →John Donne, from the frontispiece to _Death's Duel_, 1632
_face page_ 369
Read full poem →1. Ianthe (Lady Charlotte Harley), from an Engraving _Frontispiece_
by W. Finden, after a Drawing by R. Westall, R.A.
Read full poem →ENGRAVED BY EDMUND EVANS, FROM DRAWINGS BY BIRKET FOSTER. MILL AT LISSOY
(Frontispiece). PAGE GOLDSMITH'S TOMB IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHYARD xvii THE
TRAVELLER. Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies 5 Bless'd that abode,
