The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-03-24
GREAT SALT LAKE CRY. SATURDAY.. MARCH "a 1860.

II X
with the account OF tho Everlasting Club,
OF the loves of Hilpa and Shalum. Just
finished for the next days Spectator, IN
his hand. p a
Thickly strewn near the grave Of Ma
canlay are The relics 81 men whose names
are still held IN reverence, and whose
works adorn the literature 81 our country.
| AS poet not less than q brilliant es-
sayist, Macaulay has earned q place
among the great men Of the past and pre-
sent. and In death the author Of ssthe LAYS
Of Ancient Rome and the ballad On
the Spanish Armada, will face Thomas
Campbell, who won poets fame BY .,the
Plensnfe Of Hope A few feet from the
grayeof the ennobled poet Of the nine
teeuth century stands the fine old piece Of
gothic sculpture which marks the resting
place Of Chaucer, .'the father Of English
poetry just opposite to the tomb Of
CHANGER, "the day stafren OF English
poetry, is the monument Of "Farrie Spenl
ser nthe sunrise Of orr poetry was used
as Ben johnson tells, 'sfor lack Of bread,
refusing the twenty pieces sent him by
my Lord ef Essex, as be was sorry he
had no time ID. spend thsm.n Partly
obliteTated BY the hand Of time, the tomb
Of Spenser bears the inscription, Here
lies the body Of Edmund Spenser, the
prince Of poets in his time, whose divine
spirit needs no other witness than the
works which be left behind him Beau
mont, the dramatist, sleeps there too, but
no memorial or inscription marks his rest
llngpiace; u is, however, Immediately be-.
hind Chaucer's tomb. A marble, much
defaced, erected by the Countess Of Dor
set, bears, in very iIlegiblo characters, an
inscription writted by Ben Jonson for the
tomb Of Drayton. Still nearer Macan-
lays grave there is the small pavement
stone with the inscription, 20 rare Ben
Jonson,H which Aubrey tells us was done
at ''the charge OF Jack Young, who
/ walking there when the grave was cover
ing, gave the fellow eighteen pence to cai
/ it,. At the recent relaying Of the pave
ment ofthe Abbey the original stone wa
removed and destroyed. a few feet dis
tant is the monument of .Cowley, raiset
! by George, Duke Of Buckingham. "A
monument raised by Sheffield, Duke o
Buckingham. marks the grave Of Dryden
GLORIOUS John,p who was followed to hi
| resting place by mourners 10 twent,
nourning coaches, each drawn by sii
horses, and at whose requiem an ode o
| Horace was sung with an accompaniment
of trnmpets and hautb0ys. The onl
titled poet that sleeps in this part Of TIL
/ abbey is the earl Of RosconmoD,1 tn
4 lannon's master Of the horse to til,
Duchess Of York at the Restoration
| Another companion Of Macaulay il
Nicholas Rowe. There are also Matthew
Prior AND John Gay, and be whose toni
bore the inscription, in imitation of that
of Jonson, "0h rare Sir William Da
yenant;D and Samuel johnson, David
Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
and Camden, the father Of English His.
tory; May, the historian Of! the long Par
lament; Clifford, the editor of the Tory
Quarterly Rerielc; DR.. Parr, and numer.
Gus others. AT the opposite, Or north.
end Of the transept, there towers above
other memorable graves the stately monu.
ment of Chatham, of whom Maeaulay
wrote, and the words are now not less
4 applicable to himself, Among the emf
nent men whose bones lie near him
scarcely one has left q more stainless, and
none more splendid name. ~ London
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