 A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of an urn, giving him directions for the compass and height of it; and to bring with it a board of the just height of his body. These being got, then without...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Página 3071833Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 540 páginas
...in our great national cathedral of St. Paul ;, it was executed by the famous Nicholas Stone. U'2 " Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of an uru * * * and to bring with it a board of the just height of his body. * * * A choice painter was got... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 páginas
...quaint age. " A monument being resolved on," Walton tells us, " Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make him in wood the figure of an urn, giving him directions...compass and height of it, and to bring with it a board of the just height of his body. These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got, to be... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1864 - 438 páginas
...undertook not to persuade him how, or what monument it .should be; that was left to Dr. Donne himself. A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the f,gure of an urn, giving him directions for the compass and height of it ; and to bring with it a board,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 182 páginas
...undertook not to persuade him how, or what monument it should be ; that was left to Dr. Donne himself. A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for...compass and height of it ; and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. " These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got to be... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 páginas
...undertook not to persuade him how, or what monument it should be ; that was left to Dr. Donne himself. A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for...compass and height of it ; and to bring with it a board of the just height of his body. " These being got, then without delay a choice Painter was got to be... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 páginas
...his friends, and the process has been described by that charming old biographer, Isaac Walton : — "A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for...compass and height of it ; and to bring with it a board of the just height of his body. That being got ; then, without delay, a choice painter was got to be... | |
 | 1875 - 556 páginas
...taken by his directions, the like of which was never heard of before or since. In his last illness, " Dr. Donne sent for a carver, to make for him, in wood,...the compass and height of it, and to bring with it aboard of the height of his 242 THE AMERICAN BIBLIOPOLIST. body : these being got, then, without delay,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 páginas
...stood for the portrait from which the effigy was made that marks his interment in St. Paul's2 : — A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for...compass and height of it ; and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. " These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got to be... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1881 - 396 páginas
...persuasion of Dr Fox, was induced to give orders for his own monument. He sent for a carver to make in wood the figure of an urn, giving him directions for the dimensions, and ordered him to bring with it a board of the height of his body. These orders having... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1884 - 498 páginas
...undertook not to persuade him how, or what monument it should be ; that was left to Dr. Donne himself. A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for...giving him directions for the compass and height of it -r and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. " These being got, then without delay... | |
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