. Shakespeare's England . h^^^^^^.. Chapel of Edward the Confessor. ard the Third. Betterton and Spranger Barry are inthe cloisters — where may be read, in four little words,the most touching epitaph in the Abbey : Jane Lister— dear child. There are no monuments to eitherByron, Shelley, Swift, Pope, Bolingbroke, Keats, Cow- XI WESTMINSTER ABBEY 111 per, Moore, or Young; but Mason and Shadwcll arecommemorated; and Barton Booth is splendidly in-urned; while hard by, in the cloisters, a place wasfound for Mrs. Gibber, Tom Brown, Anne Bracegirdle,Anne Oldfield, and Aphra Behn. The destinies haveno
. Shakespeare's England . h^^^^^^.. Chapel of Edward the Confessor. ard the Third. Betterton and Spranger Barry are inthe cloisters — where may be read, in four little words,the most touching epitaph in the Abbey : Jane Lister— dear child. There are no monuments to eitherByron, Shelley, Swift, Pope, Bolingbroke, Keats, Cow- XI WESTMINSTER ABBEY 111 per, Moore, or Young; but Mason and Shadwcll arecommemorated; and Barton Booth is splendidly in-urned; while hard by, in the cloisters, a place wasfound for Mrs. Gibber, Tom Brown, Anne Bracegirdle,Anne Oldfield, and Aphra Behn. The destinies havenot always been stringently fastidious as to the admis-sion of lodgers to this sacred ground. The pilgrim isstartled by some of the names that he finds in West-minster Abbey, and pained by reflection on the absenceof some that he will seek in vain. Yet he will not failto moralise, as he strolls in Poets Corner, upon theinexorable justice with which time repudiates fictitiousreputations and twines the laurel on only the worthiestb
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