 | Cam river - 1851 - 380 sider
...children in one hamlet born and bred ; Fill up the round of life from hour to hour. Tennyson. ©tx LIE heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. ARUNDINES CAM!. 'O KA6' 'HMEPAN BIOS. ПА1ДЕ êuw crvveovre êuotv атго yeÍTove KW/JLOÎV,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 sider
...be otherwise than what the words impart, and construe them according to the sense of the writer. 1. Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. — Epitaph on a bad Architect. 2. " And hope shall revive again, and brighter and warmer than the... | |
 | 1851 - 608 sider
...distinguished as a dramatist and architect, and Deflecting on his achievements in the latter capacity : — Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. The original of the following not very gallant production is to be found among th« epigrams of Boileau... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke - 1852 - 820 sider
...very considerable celebrity in their day, and, as a witticism, they are not so much amiss. He said, " Lie heavy on him Earth ! for He . Laid many a heavy load on Thee." The building may be somewhat too heavy when viewed merely as a domestic dwelling, but when considered... | |
 | William Eccles (Bookseller) - 1852 - 108 sider
...whose real or supposed failing in this respect, gave occasion to the well-known caustic couplet, " Lie heavy on him, earth ; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." It is to be regretted that censure should be so generally indiscriminating, and that works of merit... | |
 | George Godwin - 1853 - 246 sider
...an original genius, and paid the penalty for that crime by being lampooned and abused in epigrams. " Lie heavy on him, earth ; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee," — wrote one. " Lo ! What huge heaps of littleness around, The whole a laboured quarry above ground,"... | |
 | John Noake - 1854 - 450 sider
...invoked in the epitaph made on Sir J. Yanbrugh, an architect of the early part of the last century — " Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." To those good quiet souls who scarcely ever stir from their own parish, a journey from our brick and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 sider
...Vanbrugh, its architect, and Dr. Evans, the Oxford epigrammatist, has embodied the charge in the lines, " Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee."] " The two statues of the Gladiator pugnans and Gladiator mtirieru. Unwater'd see the drooping sea-horse... | |
 | Edward Young - 1854 - 116 sider
...Pope's epitaph, 1 as a man of genius, who possessed the esthetic instinct, and could look beyond the 1 " Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thec." limits of a pair of compasses. I wish I could say as mflch for the " line and rule" men who... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 326 sider
...so good, wrote a K 2 jesting epitaph on Sir John, the final couplet of which has become famous : " Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." Sir Joshua Reynolds however was of opinion, that Vanbrugh's style was misconstrued," and that it was... | |
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Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings. 
