| 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...underwent a striking transformation, and became, in a manner, a new school in art: one man aloue " Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." It may be remarked that Sir John was not so bigoted to the creations of his own brain, but that throughout... | |
| 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 746
...upon. — Death lies on her like an untimely fhow'r Upon the fweeteft flow'r of all the iield. Shak. Lie heavy on him, earth ; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Epitaph on Vanbrugh. 3. To be repofitcd in the grave. — All the kingb of the nations lit in glory, every one... | |
| 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...sublimity. The heaviness that pervades the buildings erected by him gave rise to the well-known couplet: Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Still it is generally admitted, that he succeeded more than any other architect in forming a general... | |
| 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...their ancestors ?" In his character of architect, Dr Evans bestowed on him the following epitaph :— Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Blenheim, and Castle Howard, are amongst his greatest and best works ; and let no one, who has not... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...their ancestors ?" In his character of architect, Dr Evans bestowed on him the following epitaph : — Lie heavy on him, Earth ' for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Blenheim, and Castle Howard, are amongst his greatest and best works ; and let no one, who has not... | |
| James Norris Brewer - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...himself a poet, and therefore possessed numerous enemies amongst the wits. Those sharply-pointed lines, " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for He " Laid many a heavy load on Tbee," have proved more injurious to his reputation as an architect, than all the animadversions of... | |
| 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...sublhnity. The heaviness that pervades the buildings erected by him gave rise to the well-known couplet: Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Still it is generally admitted, that he succeeded more than any other architectinforming a general... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There is another... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There is another... | |
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