. Impressions of Westminster abbey, an illustrated text to accompany seven etchings. nity of our recumbent kings, with i^)^^^^^^*^^l^^rM^ Chatham gesticulating from the northern ^ ^^^^J^V) transept, or Pitt from the western door, or ^Mi//^^\S^\ ^M^^yyil Shakespeare leaning on his column in the l^vf/^^^^Ji/l<(r^\^^^t^ Poets Corner, or Wolfe expiring by the (i^g&ijKUd^^^-f Chapel of St. John. But, in fact, they \^]^^^^-M are, in their different ways, keeping guardover the shrine of our monarchs and ourlaws, and their very incongruity and varietybecome symbols of the harmonious diversityin
. Impressions of Westminster abbey, an illustrated text to accompany seven etchings. nity of our recumbent kings, with i^)^^^^^^*^^l^^rM^ Chatham gesticulating from the northern ^ ^^^^J^V) transept, or Pitt from the western door, or ^Mi//^^\S^\ ^M^^yyil Shakespeare leaning on his column in the l^vf/^^^^Ji/l<(r^\^^^t^ Poets Corner, or Wolfe expiring by the (i^g&ijKUd^^^-f Chapel of St. John. But, in fact, they \^]^^^^-M are, in their different ways, keeping guardover the shrine of our monarchs and ourlaws, and their very incongruity and varietybecome symbols of the harmonious diversityin unity which pervades our whole com-monwealth. True, from such a purelyhistoric point of view. But to the architectsand painters vision more agreeable wouldit be were it still possible to see the beau- tne lower part or ine interior wans, or ac -ifr^Vjn^i^*-. least less mutilated and obscured by a host J^^C^I^wfi) of often very ugly monumental slabs, infe- %)<^^^i ^ rior statues, and all sorts of things, com- !i)/^^^^^^^^ memorating certainly now and then noble ylA(^^^M[ i.
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