. Shakespeare's England . CHAPTER XVIII AT THE GRAVE OF COLERIDGE. MONG the deeply meditative, melodious,and eloquent poems of Wordsworth thereis one — about the burial of Ossian —that glances at the question of fitness ina place of sepulchre. Not always, forthe illustrious dead, has the final couch of restbeen rightly chosen. We think with resignation,and with a kind of pride, of Keats and Shelley inthe little Protestant burial-ground at Rome. Everyheart is touched at the spectacle of Garrick and John-son sleeping side by side in Westminster Abbey. Itwas right that the dust of Dean Stanley sh
. Shakespeare's England . CHAPTER XVIII AT THE GRAVE OF COLERIDGE. MONG the deeply meditative, melodious,and eloquent poems of Wordsworth thereis one — about the burial of Ossian —that glances at the question of fitness ina place of sepulchre. Not always, forthe illustrious dead, has the final couch of restbeen rightly chosen. We think with resignation,and with a kind of pride, of Keats and Shelley inthe little Protestant burial-ground at Rome. Everyheart is touched at the spectacle of Garrick and John-son sleeping side by side in Westminster Abbey. Itwas right that the dust of Dean Stanley should minglewith the dust of poets and of kings; and to see — asthe present writer did, only a little while ago — freshflowers on the stone that covers him, in the chapel ofHenry the Seventh, was to feel a tender gladness andsolemn content. Shakespeares grave, in the chancel ofStratford church, awakens the same ennobling awe andmelancholy pleasure ; and it is with kindred feeling thatyou linger at the tomb of Gray. But who can be con- 208 CHAP, xviii AT T
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