Remarks on English churches and on the expediency of rendering sepulchral memorials subservient to pious and Christian uses (1843)
Markland, J. H. (James Heywood), 1788-1864 · Oxford : J.H. Parker · leaf 136
es for a large proportion of those un-important and unedifying ones, which have been phaguses or monumental urns in the ancient taste. Describing Priorsmonument in Westminster Abbey, designed by himself, he says, Thefigures representing the muse Clio on one side, and History on the other,with the… … o o AND ON SEPULCHRAL MEMORIALS. 91 pointed out, the object should be to associate thenames and the virtues of the dead with somethingmore durable, important, and beneficial than all, thatSculpture and Epitaphs alone can afford. On the death of the head of a family of rank orwealth, the more…
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