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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
• 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
• '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
• A photograph of the author forms the frontispiece to the book.
• The first illustration was a colour frontispiece entitled ‘Chemical Industry, Upheld by Pure Science, Sustains the Production of Man's Necessities.’
• The facade of the house was even grander than the back and its frontispiece was an immense wraparound porch. ROUGH JUSTICE
• The portrait of Signorelli in the frontispiece is the half of this painting. Luca Signorelli
• 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
• There is a big granite basso-relievo in the frontispiece of the memorial which is 41.8 metres long, 5.4 metres high.
• 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