 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1882 - 428 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument ; for instead of celebrating the man/ remarkable actions he had performed in the service...greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country. The monuments... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Church buildings - 1882 - 372 pages
...canopy of state. The in' scription is answerable to the monument, for, instead of ' celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in ' the service...which it was impossible for him to ' reap any honour.' 2 The Admiral was returning with bis fleet from Gibraltar. It was believed that the crew had got drunk... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 324 pages
...celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only only with the manner of his death, in which it was...Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, shew an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 322 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument ; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only only with the manner of his death, in \vhich it •was impossible for him to reap any honour. The Dutch,... | |
 | AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883 - 590 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service...Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, shew an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument, for, instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service...which it was impossible for him to reap any honour. 8. The Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 418 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument ; for, instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service...which it was impossible for him to reap any honour.' A more enduring fame than Sir Cloudesley Shovel's — in spite of his monument in the great Abbey —... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Cathedrals - 1886 - 660 pages
...canopy of state. The in' scription is answerable to the monument, for, instead of ' celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed ' in the service...death, in which it was impossible for him to ' reap any honour.'2 The Admiral was returning with hia fleet from Gibraltar. It was believed that the crew had... | |
 | Mabel C. (Bradley) Birchenough - 1886 - 106 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument ; for, instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service...death, in which it was impossible for him to reap any honour."f SIR GODFREY KNELLER, d. 1723, a well-known portrait painter from the time of Charles II.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument ; for instead of celebrating the many buildings 'and works of this nature than what we meet with in those of our own country. The monuments... | |
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The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it was impossible for him to reap any honour. 
