. Impressions of Westminster abbey, an illustrated text to accompany seven etchings. ecumbent hgures unattainable by the jr-^llf fl^CV^^^ standing statues, and these are often re- cTl^^VVv^-i/presented, if soldiers, as Roman generals, ^I?^^^^or else in togas or such like garments, ({L/yt\rW/^ ^v^yvv Tiarking no particular period, and least ow/)^^^^^^ all that in which they lived. At th( W, K^^^Sfp\f entrance to this aisle, for instance, stands ^^^ST^^Sir Robert Peel, like a Roman senator /^^L-ll!^^^:^ ^Yr ?^j^~^\ P°sg * the frigidarium of a Roman bath, (l^SS^7M^j^ (S^O ^^f ^^^ °t like an Engli

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. Impressions of Westminster abbey, an illustrated text to accompany seven etchings. ecumbent hgures unattainable by the jr-^llf fl^CV^^^ standing statues, and these are often re- cTl^^VVv^-i/presented, if soldiers, as Roman generals, ^I?^^^^or else in togas or such like garments, ({L/yt\rW/^ ^v^yvv Tiarking no particular period, and least ow/)^^^^^^ all that in which they lived. At th( W, K^^^Sfp\f entrance to this aisle, for instance, stands ^^^ST^^Sir Robert Peel, like a Roman senator /^^L-ll!^^^:^ ^Yr ?^j^~^\ P°sg * the frigidarium of a Roman bath, (l^SS^7M^j^ (S^O ^^f ^^^ °t like an English statesman of the v^_r^_J/^7/ ^ \5lh nineteenth centurv. A better taste pre- ^TK^^^^-^ ?jC^ vailed in former days, when great men rJ~^ were represented on monuments in con- fj^ to^^^^ temporary costumes, and the knights in ir-=:^t. ^wU^^^P^ their armour, with dignity reposing after c^tS^ ^ps^NJ^^^^^^ their active and often turbulent lives, ^ufl^^h^ V^l/I^il^-^/y ^^^X i^ nearly all instances, marked their [I ^^Al /vroT^i* perioa. ^v^ir/ft Dean Stanley says: We are some-.

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