Category:Epigraphs in literature

**epigraph**
	short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book, chapter or article (use Q3589144 for inscription on an object) Title page containing a couplet translated in English by Alexander Pope as an epigraph
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Different from	epigraphy; epitaph; epigram; epithet; epigraph; epigraph;
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English: Epigraphs are quotes found on the title pages, and sometimes the dedication pages, of books and other literature. The quote may sometimes be from the work itself.

Subcategories

This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

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Epigraphs in Thai literature‎ (2 C, 6 F)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin‎ (1 F)

Media in category "Epigraphs in literature"

The following 53 files are in this category, out of 53 total.

A few passing ideas.jpg 553 × 808; 49 KB
A short biographical dictionary of English literature, title 1.jpeg 1,864 × 3,022; 1.12 MB
Bathsheba Bowers.jpg 1,289 × 1,581; 769 KB
CalebWilliams.jpg 293 × 617; 23 KB
Carlyle French Revolution.jpg 270 × 398; 14 KB
ChaponeLettersTitle.jpg 295 × 503; 43 KB
Colman Terence title page.jpg 750 × 1,082; 115 KB
Directions to servants - Frontespizio della seconda edizione (Robert Dodsley e Mary Cooper - 1745).jpg 1,156 × 1,922; 783 KB
Epigrafe riapertura del Liceo Flacco.jpg 1,200 × 1,600; 111 KB
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Essai sur les fables - Bailly.png 366 × 590; 52 KB
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Fifth Monarchy Aspinwall.jpg 567 × 760; 106 KB
Gabriele D'Annunzio epigrafe Gaspare Bolla.jpg 720 × 529; 73 KB
GentlemansMag Frontispiece.jpg 2,171 × 3,689; 3.79 MB
History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution.jpg 640 × 1,039; 120 KB
House of the Wolfings Title Page 1890.jpg 1,572 × 2,205; 836 KB
John Inglesant 1st ed.jpg 942 × 1,598; 529 KB
Knight of the Burning Pestle.jpg 315 × 475; 29 KB
Locke Essay 1690.jpg 434 × 775; 34 KB
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Love'sLastShift title.png 2,346 × 3,113; 283 KB
Mary prince first edition frontpage.jpg 300 × 550; 56 KB
MAUGENET Marie de Brabant, reine de France, ou le calomniateur.jpg 540 × 795; 112 KB
Memoria sullo scavo della Via Appia epigraph.png 377 × 52; 21 KB
Memoria sullo scavo della Via Appia epigraph.svg 726 × 74; 4 KB
MercierAn2440.jpg 515 × 810; 90 KB
Montesquieu, De l'Esprit des loix (1st ed, 1748, vol 1, half title).jpg 1,790 × 2,410; 368 KB
Montesquieu, De l'Esprit des loix (1st ed, 1748, vol 2, half title).jpg 1,755 × 2,325; 392 KB
New Model Army - Soldier's catechism.jpg 270 × 430; 54 KB
Nightmare Abbey.jpg 1,283 × 1,754; 870 KB
Ode Intimations of Immortality 1807 title.jpg 426 × 431; 5 KB
Oedipus A Tragedy.jpg 329 × 452; 19 KB
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Philip Dru Original title page.jpg 314 × 500; 25 KB
Poems in two volumes.jpg 568 × 811; 27 KB
PriestleyDoctrinePhilNec.jpg 451 × 661; 48 KB
PriestleyHistoryLectures.jpg 576 × 1,056; 59 KB
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Principia Ethica title page.png 773 × 1,262; 24 KB
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Tales 1826.jpg 2,446 × 4,192; 472 KB
Tegla Gwr Pen-y-Bryn wyneb(dg).JPG 1,867 × 1,407; 624 KB
The interresting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.jpg 210 × 353; 16 KB
TheWasteLandEpigraph.jpg 250 × 112; 16 KB
Venus-und-adonis-latin-frontcover-text.jpg 344 × 550; 45 KB
Way of the World cover (Congreve, 1700).jpg 830 × 1,395; 291 KB
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