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... tombs will produce the same satiety as too many pictures . There can be no advantage , and there will be less pleasure , in filling the brain with a hopeless jumble in which kings and statesmen , warriors , ecclesiastics , and poets ...
... tombs will produce the same satiety as too many pictures . There can be no advantage , and there will be less pleasure , in filling the brain with a hopeless jumble in which kings and statesmen , warriors , ecclesiastics , and poets ...
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... tomb , though it was not erected till more than a hundred years after his death ( 1551 ) , is the only ancient monument in the transept . Here , as Addison says , ' there are many poets who have no monuments , and many monuments which ...
... tomb , though it was not erected till more than a hundred years after his death ( 1551 ) , is the only ancient monument in the transept . Here , as Addison says , ' there are many poets who have no monuments , and many monuments which ...
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... tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate ... tomb of the parents themselves , I consider the vanity of griev- ing for those whom we must quickly follow . When I ...
... tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate ... tomb of the parents themselves , I consider the vanity of griev- ing for those whom we must quickly follow . When I ...
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... tomb , with a canopy , which was added by an admirer , one Nicholas Brigham , in the reign of Edward VI . This ' Maister Chaucer , the Flour of Poetes , ' is chiefly known from his ' Canterbury Tales , ' by which a company of pilgrims ...
... tomb , with a canopy , which was added by an admirer , one Nicholas Brigham , in the reign of Edward VI . This ' Maister Chaucer , the Flour of Poetes , ' is chiefly known from his ' Canterbury Tales , ' by which a company of pilgrims ...
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... TOMB . W.M.T.QUICK S Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , 1807-1882 . A bust set up in 1884 . John Dryden , 1700. A monument erected by Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham , with a bust by Scheemakers , given by the poet's widow in 1730. Pope wrote ...
... TOMB . W.M.T.QUICK S Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , 1807-1882 . A bust set up in 1884 . John Dryden , 1700. A monument erected by Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham , with a bust by Scheemakers , given by the poet's widow in 1730. Pope wrote ...
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Page 120 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
Page 75 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 120 - Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Page 97 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust I ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 97 - Enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free; Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 93 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 16 - Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick...
Page 67 - And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die.
Page 68 - With all his faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 78 - Shovel's monument has very often given me great offence. Instead of the brave, rough English admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain, gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions, under a canopy of state.