| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...grave to make. The rich, green mountain turf should break. BRYANT — June. 2 I would rather sloep dibras. Pt. II. Canto III. LI to There is a pleasure in the pathle tombs of the Capulets. BURKE — Letter to Matthew Smith. 3 Perhaps the early grave Which men weep... | |
| National Americana Society - United States - 1925 - 848 pages
...Strawberry Chapel, St. John's Parish Berkeley Co., SC, 1725-1913 BY ISAAC BELL,* CHABLESTON, SOUTH CABOLINA I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the Tomb of all the Capulets. EDMUND BURKE. N St. John Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, on a hill above... | |
| John Earle Uhler - English language - 1926 - 200 pages
...interested the scientist. 6. If necessary he will go to Dallas. 7. This is the house where I was born. 8. I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little...country churchyard, than in the tomb of the Capulets. 9. He denied that he had seen the book. 10. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs... | |
| Law - 1920 - 642 pages
...sentiment of humanity, which revolts at the thought that the ashes of the dead should be rudely disturbed. "I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets," wrote Burke. But in either case the law would preserve inviolate the sanctity... | |
| F. W. Ricord - Union County (N.J.) - 2001 - 346 pages
...MOREHOUSE, JQ DUDLEY, JS FERRIS, GIDEON Luni.ow. CLARK SCUDDER. JOSIAH CRANE, SR. THE OLD CHURCHYARD. " I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets." — Burke. 544 hundred headstones in this cemetery, experts on such subjects... | |
| De Alva Stanwood Alexander - Maine - 1898 - 170 pages
...mingles with the rustle of the maples that have for years stood guard over the mounds about them. " I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard," says Edmund Burke, " than in the tomb of the Capulets." "David Alexander, Grandson of tbe Pioneer 1... | |
| 308 pages
...English grave. 4 ie either outside in the churchyard, or inside in the chancel. Compare Burke's words : ' I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little...country churchyard, than in the tomb of the Capulets' (Letter in Prior's Life, p. 33). Meantime the death-like stillness of autumn, exquisitely beautiful... | |
| New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 598 pages
...remarkable, as showing how little he changed, and how completely the youth M Was father to the man." " Yet after all, do you know that I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a country church-yard than in the tomb of the Capulets '( I should like, however, that mv dust should... | |
| Literature - 1907 - 854 pages
...sunshine and the rain. than in the stateliest of Gothic shrines. "I would rather," said Edmund Burke, "sleep In the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets." And this quiet sense of restfulness and peace Is engendered In no small degree by the sombre shade... | |
| George Augustus Wheeler - Brunswick (Me.) - 1878 - 1018 pages
...or shorter time. CHAPTER XI. BURIAL-PLACES AND EPITAPHS. " I WOULD rather," remarks Edmund Burke, " sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets " ; and doubtless the same sentiment is felt, if not expressed, by many whose departed friends repose... | |
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