Lexicographical Neighbors of Macaber
Literary usage of Macaber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"... and harmony, to these innovations. SECTION XXI. Reign of Henry the Sixth.
Lydgate. His life and character. His Dance of Death. macaber a German poet. ..."
2. Art Treasures of the Lambeth Library: A Description of the Illuminated by Lambeth Palace Library, Samuel Wayland Kershaw (1873)
"The origin of the word macaber, or Macabre, is very involved, fome contending
... In England, the macaber Dance ornamented fome portion of old St Paul's, ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1859)
"History of the Skeleton of Death. said to be by one macaber, which name seems to
be a ... This learned investigator has reduced macaber to a nonentity, ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1858)
"paid to be by one macaber, which name seems to be a corruption of St. Macaire ;
the old ... This learned investigator has reduced macaber to a nonentity, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1834)
"... as the dances of macaber, a person of unknown origin, by some taken for an
artist, and by others for a German poet; by some altered to the Maccabees; ..."
6. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"... -macaber, an early German poet, the author of a work entitled, The Dance of
Death, or The Dance of macaber, consisting of a series of dialogues between ..."
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