...Metcalf, E. Gibbon, Jos. Warton. Sir Joshua carried it and received for answer from Johnson, " that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." — " I wonder," said he, " that Joe Wartou, a scholar by profession, should be such a fool .;" adding,...

...gentlemen that he would alter the inscription 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 epitaph ; and observing the names of Dr. Warton and Edmund Burke among the circumscribers, said to...

...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...

...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...

...that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it, but he would nerer 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...

...indignant on the idea being suggested to him of composing Goldsmith's epitaph in English, and remarked that he "would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." It was in his epitaph on Goldsmith that the so of! en quoted line occurs: " Nullum quod tctligil non...

...indignant on the idea being suggested to him of composing Goldsmith's epitaph in English, and remarked that he "would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." It was in his epitaph on Goldsmith that the so oflen quoted line occurs : " Nullum quod tcUigil nan...

...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." Upon this decision Mr. Croker has justly expressed himself at a loss to discover how an English inscription...

...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 Eaglish inscription." I consider this round-robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving,...

...was, that he would alter the Epitaph in any way the gentlemen pleased, as to the sense of it; but " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey -with an English inscription." And as the bearer of this royal decree Sir Joshua, the ambassador, reverently took his leave. The Epitaph...