 | William Harvey - 1864 - 412 pages
...and architect, has a family vault in this church. You remember the epitaph once proposed for him:— "Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee," Dr. Croly, the rector, is a very remarkable man. Though more than eighty years of age, he still officiates... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 168 pages
...cash you are in want of any, Dig ten feet deep and you will find a Penny." On a bad architect : — "Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." A husband writes of his " better" half thus : — " Here rests my spouse ; no pair through life So... | |
 | Findlay Muirhead - 1918 - 692 pages
...In the vaults lies Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), the playwright and architect of Blenheim Palace (" Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee "). In Lothbury, on the N. side of the Bank, is the church of St. Margaret (PI. B 63, IV ; open daily... | |
 | William Jayns Weston - 1919 - 180 pages
...Vanbrugh, in Queen Anne's reign, and is one of the massive structures that gave rise to the epitaph on him, Lie heavy on him, Earth; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Castle Howard, a famous show-place four miles west of Malton, also was planned by him. The imposing... | |
 | James Louis Garvin - 1919 - 608 pages
...oppressive incubus, by all means let us bury DORA in the spirit of the epitaph proposed for Vanbrugh:— " Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." Nobody wants the coupon for its own sake. Nobody wants for their own sakes anything in the food restrictions,... | |
 | Joseph Ernest Morris - 1920 - 516 pages
...passion for size amounting to megalomania," a characteristic satirised in the famous epitaph : — " Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." The writer has endeavoured — but endeavoured unsuccessfully — to visit Castle Howard on three several... | |
 | Winchester College. Archaeological Society - 1921 - 272 pages
...Blenheim nor Castle Howard, vast as they are, is there a single comfortable room. * His epitaph ran — Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee ! The Adams brothers, who gave their name to Cb* JWams. the part of London where their graceful mantelpieces... | |
 | Sir Thomas Graham Jackson - 1922 - 328 pages
...well-known epigram, erroneously as it seems atbrugh's ar- . , , <-. . r chitecture triDUted tO Swift , Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee conveys the popular impression produced by Vanbrugh's work. Though it can hardly be called beautiful,... | |
 | Herbert Reynolds - 1922 - 270 pages
...remains had been deposited in the church a certain Dr. Evans thus referred to Vanbrugh's massive style : 'Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.' Sir Joshua Reynolds, however, took a different view, and declared that his critics failed to appreciate... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1922 - 322 pages
...Acton never recovered. Of George Eliot might have been repeated Swift's epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh : Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. It was the fatal error of George Eliot, so admirable, so elevated, so disinterested, that for the last... | |
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Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings. 
