 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...others petitioned him to write an English inscription for Goldsmith's tomb, he indignantly replied, ** te enough for me ; Thank heaven for three. Amen I I always thought cold victual nice : My choic alle dede be : wen yow comes bad & bare : noth hav ven we away fare: all y» werines yt ve for care."... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...others petitioned him to write an English inscription for Goldsmith's tomb, he indignantly replied, "he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." It must be acknowledged that there is no small poverty of thought in the mass of modern epitaph-writers.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1892 - 868 pages
...written in English, not Latin. Johnson took it kindly, but told Sir Joshua, who carried it to him, that he would ' never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." Round Table. See ARTHUR, and ROMANCES. By the Hound Table Conference is meant an ineffectual series... | |
 | 1896 - 920 pages
...written in English, not Latin. Johnson took it kindly, but told Sir Joshua, who carried it to him, that he would ' never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. ' Round Tahle. See ARTHUR, and ROMANCES. Bv the Round Table Conference is meant an ineffectual series... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1898 - 344 pages
...ornament, which we know to have been the opinion of the late Doctor himself." But Johnson was immovable. " He would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. The Latin was accordingly placed upon the marble, where it now remains " (Forster, p. 464). day contemporary... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1900 - 480 pages
...clerk. " 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 1 He, however, upon seeing Dr. Warton's name to the suggestion, that the epitaph should be in English,... | |
 | Ralph Richardson - Bankers - 1902 - 220 pages
...Latin, epitaph for Goldsmith's monument in Westminster Abbey, and to which the Doctor replied that he would 'never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.' Seeing that the petitioners included Gibbon, Burke, Sheridan, and other masters of English prose, the... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1903 - 360 pages
...and Gibbon. Eeynolds undertook its presentation ; Johnson " received it with much good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would...of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." Besides prefaces and dedications and lapidary inscriptions, Johnson wrote a good many sermons, chiefly... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...Johnson received with good humour; and desired Sir Joshua, who presented it, to tell the gentlemen he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it. But then came the pinch of the matter. Langton, who was present when the remonstrance was drawn up, had... | |
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Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, 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... 
