The Roll-call of Westminister Abbey

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1903 - 404 páginas
 

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Página 313 - the nave, where Kneller's was first placed :— " Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no tide, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all appror'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd by the Muse he
Página 102 - When I am in the presence of either father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go; eat, drink, be merry or sad ; be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure, or number even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so
Página 102 - so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till the time come that I must go to Mr. Aylmer
Página 209 - dame, who with her distinguished husband took a deservedly high place at "the court of Charles II. Margaret Lucas came "of a noble o family, for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous." Female education during the reign of Charles I. was no longer at the high pitch it had attained under the Tudor
Página 102 - cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till the time come that I must go to Mr. Aylmer
Página 303 - to the latest researches, Lady Annabella Howard, the young fourth wife of Lady Elizabeth's aged brother, Sir Robert Howard, put up the memorial, and her husband wrote the inscription :—" Here lyes Henry Purcell, Esq., who has left this life and gone to that blessed place where only his harmony can be exceeded.
Página 1 - of majesty In the cathedral church of Westminster, And in that chair where Kings and Queens are crown'd." YEAR by year for more than a decade the writer of the following pages has watched the passing of the old
Página 373 - like Castlereagh: Very smooth he looked, yet grim, Seven bloodhounds followed him ; " All were fat, and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew, Which from his wide cloak he drew." The unfortunate minister died by his own hand in a fit of insanity, and his funeral in the Abbey,
Página 312 - to his merit and brave thirst of praise: Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvye Her works ; and dying, fears herself may dye." The two most popular contemporary line engravers, George Vertue (d. 1756) and William Woollett
Página 243 - Francis speaks of Jonson as a dear friend in many of the poems which he wrote as prologues to Ben's plays. While Bishop Cowley says of the young dramatist's premature end— " Beaumont is dead, by whose sole death appears Wit's a disease consumes men in few years.

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