A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern, with an Emblematical Frontispiece ... |
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... Westminster . An emblem of time is standing on an altar supposed to be repeating the following Epitaph : - - Why flows the mournful muse's tear For thee cut down in life's full prime : Why sighs for thee the parent dear , Cropt by the ...
... Westminster . An emblem of time is standing on an altar supposed to be repeating the following Epitaph : - - Why flows the mournful muse's tear For thee cut down in life's full prime : Why sighs for thee the parent dear , Cropt by the ...
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... Westminster . He derived his descent from an ancient Family of Ireland : His fame and honors for his virtues and abilities . How eminently those were displayed , With what vigilance and spirit they were exerted In the various services ...
... Westminster . He derived his descent from an ancient Family of Ireland : His fame and honors for his virtues and abilities . How eminently those were displayed , With what vigilance and spirit they were exerted In the various services ...
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... Westminster lie the Remains of ANN OF CLEVE , SISTER OF THE DUKE OF CLEVE , Who was contracted in marriage to Henry VIII . and received with great pomp on Blackheath , January 3 , 1539 ; married to the King on the 9th ; and in July ...
... Westminster lie the Remains of ANN OF CLEVE , SISTER OF THE DUKE OF CLEVE , Who was contracted in marriage to Henry VIII . and received with great pomp on Blackheath , January 3 , 1539 ; married to the King on the 9th ; and in July ...
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... their garden for a Paradise . St. Margaret's , Westminster . IN MEMORY OF HENRY HAGAN'S THREE WIVES . Beneath this stone in peace , here lies Ann , Eliza , and Mary , three good wives . ON AMELIA GASPEY , An Infant . Why memory , 84.
... their garden for a Paradise . St. Margaret's , Westminster . IN MEMORY OF HENRY HAGAN'S THREE WIVES . Beneath this stone in peace , here lies Ann , Eliza , and Mary , three good wives . ON AMELIA GASPEY , An Infant . Why memory , 84.
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... day he was beheaded in old Palace - Yard , Westminster , October 18 , 1618 : Reader ! should you reflect on his error , Remember his many virtues , and that he was mortal . Bishopgate Church - Yard . ON SARAH THOMPSON . Once 85.
... day he was beheaded in old Palace - Yard , Westminster , October 18 , 1618 : Reader ! should you reflect on his error , Remember his many virtues , and that he was mortal . Bishopgate Church - Yard . ON SARAH THOMPSON . Once 85.
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Page 67 - Why do we mourn departing friends Or shake at death's alarms? 'tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms.
Page 253 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff.
Page 47 - HEAR what the voice from heaven proclaims, For all the pious dead, Sweet is the savour of their names, And soft their sleeping bed. 2 They die in Jesus and are bless'd ; How kind their slumbers are ! From sufferings and from sins released, And freed from every snare.
Page 215 - JLjO ! where this silent Marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps : A Heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and faith sincere, • And soft humanity were there.
Page 35 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London...
Page 246 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Page 214 - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died.
Page 251 - EPITAPH ON CHARLES II. Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
Page 217 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 236 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.