Shakespeare's England . that prompted theburial of Johnson close beside Garrick. Theyset out together to seek their fortune in thegreat city. They participated in the indulgenceof youthful dreams of fame, in romantic ambi-tion, in quixotic plans, and in such affectionatefeeling as comrades cherish and never found eminence in a different way, and,although measurably parted afterward by thecurrents of fame and wealth, they were neversundered in friendship. It was fit they should,at last, be entombed together, under the mostglorious roof that greets the skies of gave m
Shakespeare's England . that prompted theburial of Johnson close beside Garrick. Theyset out together to seek their fortune in thegreat city. They participated in the indulgenceof youthful dreams of fame, in romantic ambi-tion, in quixotic plans, and in such affectionatefeeling as comrades cherish and never found eminence in a different way, and,although measurably parted afterward by thecurrents of fame and wealth, they were neversundered in friendship. It was fit they should,at last, be entombed together, under the mostglorious roof that greets the skies of gave me an impressive first visit tothe Tower of London. The sky lowered. Theair was very cold. The wind blew with angrygusts. The rain fell, now and then, in a chilldrizzle. The river was dark and sullen. Ifthe spirits of the dead come back to hauntany place, they surely come back to haunt thatone; and this was a day for their dark ghost seemed near, at every step,—<the ominous shade of the great and lonely. y z- o I-} fao o HH ABBEY AND TOWER 53 Richard, Duke of Gloster. The little room inwhich the princes are said to have been mur-dered, by his command, was shown, and theoratory where King Henry the Sixth is sup-posed to have met a violent death, and thecouncil chamber, in which Richard, after listen-ing, in ambush behind the arras, denouncedthe brilliant Hastings. The latter place is nowused as an armory; but the same ceiling coversit that echoed the bitter invective of Glosterand the rude clamor of his soldiers, when theirdismayed victim was plucked forth and draggeddownstairs, to be beheaded on a timber-login the courtyard. The Tower is a place forsuch deeds, and you almost wonder that theydo not happen still, in its gloomy room in which, as most of the historiansdeclare, the princes were killed, is particularlygrisly in aspect. It is an inner room, smalland dark. A grated window in one of itswalls fronts a window on the other side of thepassage b
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