The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-25
WESTMINSTER ABBEY

and song. Nicholas Rowe, whose widows
with tears inscribes this monumental
stone,
That holds thy ashes and expects her
yet Who within the year married Colonel
peane! st. Eyremonde. patriarch OF the.
wits OF Charles lis reign; Brown. the
~satirist and essayist.
ts Only in the last century appeared IN
Poets Corner the image OF the great MT.
Addison. Skilfully craven, representing
him, as We conceive him. clad In his
dressing gown and freed from his VIE.
stepping from the parlor at Chelsea into
the trim little garden, in one hand the
account OF the Everlasting Club just
finished for the next days Spectator.
In #creats state his coffin was placed be-
side that OF his friend and patron, Mons
tague. Earl OF Halifax, In the vault OF
Henry Wis chapel. At dead OF night
the body, which had lain IN stats. N me
Abbey. BY torchlight the procession
moved round the shrine OF st. Edward
and the graves OF the Plantagenetst to the
SPOT selected. At the head OF the vault
stood Bishop Atterbury in his prclate,s
robes, about him grouped the Vestmins-
ter scholars, with their white tapers d'mly
lighting up the futed aisle. 80 passed4to
y ltSN - CSS
compl!shed scholar!
Here, too, lie Matthew Prior, who had
the temcrity to rebuke Louis NV. OF
France, to whom he replied at Versailles:
II represent a king, who not only nghts
battles, but wins 2them.'
John Gay, tho author OF the Fables,
upon whose stone appear these words:
Life is q Jest, and all things show y:
I thought It once, but now l know 1T"
Thomas Gray, tho ugh buried at Stoke
Pogls, which he has rendered immortal
by his Elcgy, has here his memorial near
Milton.
In the Historical Aisle, ms 1t has been
called, OF Poets Corner lie Casaubon, OF
great learning Camden. prince OF English
antiquity, and Isaac Barrow, "best SCHOLAR
In England"
Across the transept stands the monu-
ment to Busby, for tlfty-e!ght years the
severe masters Of Westminster school,
ellis pupils" said a profane wit, when
they come by, look as pale as his marble
While Sir Roger de Coverley. standing
BY Busby's tomb, exclaimed: Doctor
Busby!ga great man-whipped my grand
father-a very great mani
Here was placed the memorial to Oliver
Goldsmith. Dear No!l! Whom to know
was to love, &"Ho deserved. o place IN
westminster Abbey. and every year no
hllvcOp WUulu llhfof uSoSA ~ ssSStNSss
His tablet on the'south wall OF the South
Transept was placed by the most artistic
of his admirers-slr Joshua Reynolds-the
Inscription composed by tho most learned
Doctor johnson.
Johnson himself, the giant OF that IL
lustrious company was next to fall. lie
rests near the foot OF Shakespeare,s
monuments close to the coffin of his
friend Garrick, and over his grave Is
PLACED a large, blue tlagstone with MS
name and age, Within a few feet OF Jonn-
son lies (by one OF those striking con!n-
cidences in which the Abbey nbounds)
his deadly enemy, James Macpherson.
the authoror editor ofSosslant Near by
IS the brilliant drNmatist;s Richard Brlns-
Icy Sheridan, whose death In. extreme
poverty and subsequent gorgeous inter-
sinenti in the}Abbey evoked from q French
Journal tile remark; France Is the place
FOR 4 MANOR letters to live In and Eng
land$the place for him to die IN"
Time fails but to mentionsthe names Of
that brilliant poet and h!stoFlaM Thomas