...and architect, has a family vault in this church. You remember the epitaph once proposed for him:— "Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee," Dr. Croly, the rector, is a very remarkable man. Though more than eighty years of age, he still officiates...

...fellow long since forgotten — had the malice and the luck to launch against him an immortal couplet : Lie heavy on him earth ! For he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Dr. Evans was a poor dog : 'furious madman' were the CHAP. words in which Gray described him in a letter...

...In the vaults lies Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), the playwright and architect of Blenheim Palace (" Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee "). In Lothbury, on the N. side of the Bank, is the church of St. Margaret (PI. B 63, IV ; open daily...

...Vanbrugh, in Queen Anne's reign, and is one of the massive structures that gave rise to the epitaph on him, Lie heavy on him, Earth; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Castle Howard, a famous show-place four miles west of Malton, also was planned by him. The imposing...

...oppressive incubus, by all means let us bury DORA in the spirit of the epitaph proposed for Vanbrugh:— " Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." Nobody wants the coupon for its own sake. Nobody wants for their own sakes anything in the food restrictions,...

...passion for size amounting to megalomania," a characteristic satirised in the famous epitaph : — " Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." The writer has endeavoured — but endeavoured unsuccessfully — to visit Castle Howard on three several...

...Blenheim nor Castle Howard, vast as they are, is there a single comfortable room. * His epitaph ran — Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee ! The Adams brothers, who gave their name to Cb* JWams. the part of London where their graceful mantelpieces...

...well-known epigram, erroneously as it seems atbrugh's ar- . , , <-. . r chitecture triDUted tO Swift , Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee conveys the popular impression produced by Vanbrugh's work. Though it can hardly be called beautiful,...

...Acton never recovered. Of George Eliot might have been repeated Swift's epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh : Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. It was the fatal error of George Eliot, so admirable, so elevated, so disinterested, that for the last...

...remains had been deposited in the church a certain Dr. Evans thus referred to Vanbrugh's massive style : 'Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.' Sir Joshua Reynolds, however, took a different view, and declared that his critics failed to appreciate...