The expectations raised by the prefatory dedications to this book are fully realised in both its felicitous prose and subtle readings. |
As I started work, it was moving to read some of the dedications, from many whose mothers or best friends had succumbed to breast, or other, cancers. |
Little is known of Drayton's personal life, though dedications and epistles reveal his circle to have included such friends as Stow, Camden, Jonson, and W. Drummond. |
Each of the individual dedications was pinned to the oak trees by children from the village school at Esquelbecq. |
Not for centuries, we were told, have so many temple dedications and rededications been performed. |
Three of the four dedications involve members of the Gonzaga family, two of whom lived in Rome, the third one residing at the court in Mantua. |