 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 901867Full view - About this book
 | 1815 - 740 pages
...underwent a striking transformation, and became, in a manner, a new school in art: one man aloue " Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." It may be remarked that Sir John was not so bigoted to the creations of his own brain, but that throughout... | |
 | 1824 - 334 pages
...sublimity. The heaviness that pervades the buildings erected by him gave rise to the well-known couplet: Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Still it is generally admitted, that he succeeded more than any other architect in forming a general... | |
 | 1816 - 746 pages
...upon. — Death lies on her like an untimely fhow'r Upon the fweeteft flow'r of all the iield. Shak. Lie heavy on him, earth ; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Epitaph on Vanbrugh. 3. To be repofitcd in the grave. — All the kingb of the nations lit in glory,... | |
 | 1820 - 742 pages
...their ancestors ?" In his character of architect, Dr Evans bestowed on him the following epitaph :— Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Blenheim, and Castle Howard, are amongst his greatest and best works ; and let no one, who has not... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...their ancestors ?" In his character of architect, Dr Evans bestowed on him the following epitaph : — Lie heavy on him, Earth ' for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Blenheim, and Castle Howard, are amongst his greatest and best works ; and let no one, who has not... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1820 - 516 pages
...himself a poet, and therefore possessed numerous enemies amongst the wits. Those sharply-pointed lines, " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for He " Laid many a heavy load on Tbee," have proved more injurious to his reputation as an architect, than all the animadversions of... | |
 | 1822 - 640 pages
...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There is another... | |
 | 1822 - 654 pages
...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There is another... | |
 | 1824 - 450 pages
...sublhnity. The heaviness that pervades the buildings erected by him gave rise to the well-known couplet: Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Still it is generally admitted, that he succeeded more than any other architectinforming a general... | |
 | 1822 - 820 pages
...beauties, cumbrous and inelegant in detail. Swift's epigram on this artist is pretty generally known:— ' Lie heavy on him, earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load cm thee.' Yet Castle Howard and Blenheim will keep alive the name and memory of Vanbrugh among those... | |
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