. Shakespeare's England . nof an adjacent shop, the staircase hall of which breakscruelly into the sacred edifice and impends above thealtar. On July 12, 1882, the present writer, walk-ing in the churchyard of St. Pauls, Covent Garden,— the sepulchre of William Wycherley, Robert Wilks,Charles Macklin, Joseph Haines, Thomas King, SamuelButler, Thomas Southerne, Edward Shuter, Dr. Arne,Thomas Davies, Edward Kynaston, Richard Estcourt,William Havard, and many other renowned votaries ofliterature and the stage, — found workmen building anew wall to sustain the enclosure, and almost everystone in t
. Shakespeare's England . nof an adjacent shop, the staircase hall of which breakscruelly into the sacred edifice and impends above thealtar. On July 12, 1882, the present writer, walk-ing in the churchyard of St. Pauls, Covent Garden,— the sepulchre of William Wycherley, Robert Wilks,Charles Macklin, Joseph Haines, Thomas King, SamuelButler, Thomas Southerne, Edward Shuter, Dr. Arne,Thomas Davies, Edward Kynaston, Richard Estcourt,William Havard, and many other renowned votaries ofliterature and the stage, — found workmen building anew wall to sustain the enclosure, and almost everystone in the cemetery uprooted and leaning against theadjacent houses. Those monuments, it was said, wouldbe replaced; but it was impossible not to consider thechances of error in a new mortuary deal — and thegrim witticism of Rufus Choate, about dilating withthe wrong emotion, came then into remembrance, anddid not come amiss. Facts such as these, however, bid us remember thateven the relics of the past are passing away, and. f: ^1 m \\x>§^-\^ 1 )• -^TF^-.
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