Travels in Europe and the East : a year in England, Scotland, . of-door effect—far less wandering from the subject in hand to discussevery thing else under heaven; and, without beinglimited by a one hour rule, the speakers are willingto stop when they are done. Compared with thenumber of members, there are more good speakers inCongress than in Parliament. But a judicious mix-ture of British directness and condensation with Amer-ican energy and freedom of thought and expression,would make an improvement in the style of speakingon both sides. Hard by the Parliament House is Westminste
Travels in Europe and the East : a year in England, Scotland, . of-door effect—far less wandering from the subject in hand to discussevery thing else under heaven; and, without beinglimited by a one hour rule, the speakers are willingto stop when they are done. Compared with thenumber of members, there are more good speakers inCongress than in Parliament. But a judicious mix-ture of British directness and condensation with Amer-ican energy and freedom of thought and expression,would make an improvement in the style of speakingon both sides. Hard by the Parliament House is WestminsterAbbey, where again and again I mused and worship-ped, and lingered among the dead. A mighty mauso-leum this temple is, and one can not stand within itswalls without feeling that he is on consecrated , solemn, and yet conflicting emotions strugglein his breast as he walks among the monuments, andover the ashes of kings and queens, and conquerers,statesmen, and poets ; forgetful of the glorious archi-tecture of the pile that covers the tombs of the great,. LORDS AND COMMONS. 109 Gnives of the iJOots. whose names have been household words from child-hood to this long-looked-for hour. A late -wTiter has made the following record of thegraves of the poets of England: Chaucer was buriedin the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, without thebuilding, but removed to the south aisle in 1555:Spenser lies near him. Beaumont, Drayton, Cowley,Denham, Dryden, Kowe, Addison, Prior, Congreve,Gay, Johnson, Sheridan, and Campbell, all lie with-in Westminster Abbey. Shakspeare, as every oneknows, was buiied in the chancel of the church atStratford, where there is a monument to his and Shirley are buried in St. Giless-in-the-Fields; IMarlowe, in the churchyard of St. Pauls,Deptford; Fletcher and Massinger, in the churchyardof St. Saviours, Southwark; Dr. Donne, in old ; Edmund Waller, in Beaconsfield churchyard;Milton, in the chmxhyard of St. Giless, Cripplegate
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