Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-12
NOTABLE LONDON GRAVES.
rIIustricus Dead Who DO Not Lie u"
81. Pnul's or the Abbey

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Even in London the illustrious dead 90
not All ue at Westminster or st. Paufs'
Those vast mausoleums have not always
exercised q discreet law Of selecuohi me-
diocrity and insignihcance sleep Wi'fiN
their walls. side by side with greatness
and nobility. Their sins Of omission have
been eaualed by their sins OF comihis-
sion. Not only are there many quiet
"resting-places," far away from London
smoka and din, where lies glorious dust;
hut even within the thrOnged city we
must wend our way 10 old, byway
churches and churchyards 10 ma me
graves OF many of the great departed.
To make a devout pilgrimage 10 an
London's Illus rious graves, says the
London Standard, would be no trifiins
task though every step would be fraught
with manifold interest. i. may be feared
that such pilgrimages are more often
maid by cultured Americans or by tor-
eigners than by our own fellow-country-
men. Undoubtedly, the steps Of such a
pilgrim should first turn TO 81. CHESS
~rlpplecate. There, In the church where
oliver Cromwell was married, lies Jonn
Milton. first Of English poets after SNAKE
speare OF whom Dryden said, rms man
cuts US all out as well as ~ahclents.
Nowadays we speak OF Milton more thdl
we read him, and IL IS nos likely that
even penny selections viii make Para
disc LOST popular. But the visitor TO
ST. CHESS Will think also OF the younger
Milton. who wrote "Comus" and ''Ly-
cjdas"-poems written before his Puri-
tanism had become stern and almost Tor
bidding. In this same church lies FoNe,
who wrote the Book OF Martyrs'-a man
of spirit not altogether unlike Mllton's.
AT Runhill Fields. close 10 which Milton
had lived fer so long. lies a goodly cluster
of celebrities. Here sleeps Defoe' not eN-
actly Puritan. yet In some respects as
great a writer Of fiction as England ever
saw. Robinson CTusoe, sim cassie
though no longer unrivalled in the affec-
lions Of its boy readers, went the round
OF the publishers ia the orthodox fashion,
and proved its immortal merit by being
universally declined. Poor Defoe's life was
somewhat a chequered one. but posteriiy
mas rewarded him, though hardly 70 MS
deserts. Hard by sleeps one whose fiction,
of a very different nature, has equailed
Crusoe in its popularity, and whose late
like Crusoes, Is TO be now considered CID
fashioned. John Bunyan, father OF
English fiction, gave Us what COleridge
considered TO be "the best summary OF
Evangelical Christianity ever produced by
a writer not mlraculously inspired" Bun
yam succeeded where a greater man had
failed. he was the Worlds most notable
allegorst. Spenser noble poet as he was,
could not touch this marvellous tinker IN
his allegory Bunyan was the fayorite or
the masses before he could win the sufA
frages Of the cultured few. In this same
Bunhili burylng ground lies Fox, the found
or OF Quakerism. he also was great
man, and LETT his lndelible mark. DR..
Watts, who profoundly Influenced our
hymnology, lies here also.
Probably very few persons know tina.
Swedenborg. the mystic, was buried In
London. His grave IL In the Swedish
church. near Ratclff highway. OF his
strong genius, there can be no doubt,
though we may be compelled to confess
that the sweet bells OF his intellect
were sometimes tangled little out OF
tune. In some aspects his genin- was
akin to that OF our own william Blak.
Baxter, OF the Saints Rest" lies a.
Christ church, Newgste. Very unlike
Baxter in character and genius, the un-
clerical parson. Laurence Sterne. reached
his last bourne In Bayswater Graveyard.
In certain circles. his name ~ stu q
bugbear; and the least prudish or us
cannot quite forgive his offences against
the seemly and decent. But Shandy is an
immortal none the less. He II one of the
few English writers that have exercised
a marked influence on continental
writer's. We find traces OF Sterne IN