Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 46
thwas not presented as a thing re-volting and abhorrent, nor was anyprominence given to the mereaccidents of corruption and decay.The tombs of a later age becomewidely different. The skull and cross-bones—most futile, most conventional, mostoffensive of all decorations —appear for the first time on… … MONUMENT TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. * The sum of a life expeuded, a pearl in a swine-trough cast,A comedy played aud ended—and what has it come to at last ?The dead face pressed on a pillow, the journey taken alone,And the tomb with an urn and a willow, and a lie carved deep in the stone.—G. J.…
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