Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 240
y enhanced by ourdownward gaze. We feel that, notwithstanding all thismagnificence, we are still looking down into a grave, —a large grave with a sarcophagus in it instead of a coffin,but a grave nevertheless. The serious grandeur, the The Pantheon^ Invalides^ and Madeleine. 155 stately order, of… … THE MADELEINE. did tomb in Europe is the tomb of the most selfish, themost culpably ambitious, the most cynically unscrupu-lous of men; and the sorrowful reflection is that if hehad been honorable, unselfish, unwilling to injure others,he would have died in comparative or in total obscurity, 156…
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