 Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.  Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851 - Seite 202herausgegeben von - 1851 - 860 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 370 Seiten
...the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it, but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.^) " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 Seiten
...answer was not less emphatic. He requested Reynolds at once to acquaint his fellow mutineers, that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. The Latin was accordingly placed upon the marble, where it now remains. OLIVAHII GOLDSMITH Poeto, Physici,... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 Seiten
...answer was not less emphatic. He requested Reynolds at once to acquaint his fellow mutineers, that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. The Latin was accordingly placed upon the marble, where it now remains. OLIVARII GOLDSMITH Poete, Physici,... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 Seiten
...answer was not less emphatic. He requested Reynolds at once to acquaint his fellow mutineers, that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. The Latin was accordingly placed upon the marble, where it now remains. OLIVARII GOLDSMITH Poette,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...said, " to modify the sense of the epitaph in any manner the gentlemen pleased ; but he never would consent, to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." Seeing the names of Dr. Wharton and Edmund Burke among the signers, " he wondered," he said, " that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 Seiten
...said, " to modify the sense of the epitaph in any manner the gentlemen pleased ; but he never would consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription" Seeing the names of Dr. Warton and Edmund Burke among the signers, " he wondered," he said, " that... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 Seiten
...would celebrate the fame of an author in the language in which he wrote, observed, that he never would consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. Honorary monument to Gray, author of An Elegy in a Country Churchyard (the veree by Mason, the monument... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - 1853 - 386 Seiten
...would celebrate the fame of an author in the language in which he wrote, observed, that he never would consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. Honorary monument to Gray, author of An Elegy in a Country Churchyard (the verse by Mason, the monument... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 Seiten
...answer was not less emphatic. He requested Reynolds at once to acquaint his fellow mutineers, that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. The Latin was accordingly placed upon the marble, where it now remains. I append a translation as nearly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 Seiten
...gentlemen, that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. " * I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in... | |
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