...Johnson received with good humour ; and desired Sir Joshua, who presented it, to tell the gentlemen he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it. But then came the pinch of the mutiny. Langton, who was present when the remonstrance was drawn up, had...

...Johnson received with good humour ; and desired Sir Joshua, who presented it, to tell the gentlemen he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as ' to the sense of it. But then came the pinch of the mutiny. Langton,who was present when the remonstrance was drawn I up, had...

...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,...

...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...

...which a learned man was a native, is not the language fit for his epitaph, which DE. BAENABD. niter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the...Abbey with an English inscription. " I consider this Rowtd Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in a certain degree,...

...celebrate the fame of an English author in the language in which he wrote. Johnson flatly refused, saying he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription : and so we have before us the Latin inscription ; unintelligible perhaps to ninety-nine out of every...

...celebrate the fame of an English author in the language in which he wrote. Johnson flatly refused, saying he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription : and so we have before us the Latin inscription ; unintelligible perhaps to ninety-nine out of every...

...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...

...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...

...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...