 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pagina’s
...any minor alterations, but stoutly resisted the proposal of having it in English ; and added, that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. It was his opinion that the language of the country of which a learned man was a native was not the... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | H S Brooke - 1856 - 312 pagina’s
...would celebrate the fame of an author in the language in which he wrote, observed, that he never would consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. Honorary monument to Gray, author of an Elegy in a Country Churchyard ; the verse by Mason, the monument... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1856 - 382 pagina’s
...would celebrate the fame of an author in the language in which he wrote, observed, that he never would consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. Honorary monument to Gray, author of An Elegy in a Country Churchyard (the verse by Mason, the monument... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pagina’s
...too much to Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloman, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it, but he would nerer consent to disgrace the . walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. " I consider... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pagina’s
...indignant on the idea being suggested to him of composing Goldsmith's epitaph in English, and remarked that he "would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." It was in his epitaph on Goldsmith that the so of! en quoted line occurs: " Nullum quod tctligil non... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 pagina’s
...indignant on the idea being suggested to him of composing Goldsmith's epitaph in English, and remarked that he "would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." It was in his epitaph on Goldsmith that the so oflen quoted line occurs : " Nullum quod tcUigil nan... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pagina’s
...said, " to modify the sense of the epitaph in any manner the gentlemen pleased ; but he never would consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." Upon this decision Mr. Croker has justly expressed himself at a loss to discover how an English inscription... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pagina’s
...upon Erasmus in Dutch ! " — Boswell-] and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to...to disgrace the walls of 'Westminster Abbey with an Eaglish inscription." I consider this round-robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving,... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pagina’s
...Formyown part, 1 thiuk it would be best to 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 disyrace the wall» of Westminster Abbey vita an Eiiylùh. inscription. ' I consider this Round ВоЫп... | |
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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 pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace... 
