 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 416 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1863 - 352 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 874 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 σελίδες
...received it with much good humour, -j- and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to...marks, in a certain degree, Dr Johnson's character.' " " We, the circumscribe™, having read with great pleasure, an intended epitaph for the monument... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 σελίδες
...great good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would alter the inscription in any manner they pleased as to the sense of it ;...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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1854 - 838 σελίδες
...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, " I... | |
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Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 and desired Sir 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... 
