Shakespeare's England . Greshams Monufnent, effigies of them, recumbent on the marble pavement, andfeel and know, as perhaps you never did before, thecalm that follows the tempest. St. Marys was built in1240 and restored in 1828. It would be difficult to finda lovelier specimen of Norman architecture — at oncemassive and airy, perfectly simple, yet rich with beauty,in every line and scroll. There is only one otherchurch in Great Britain, it is said, which has, like this, a. Golthmiths House. CHAP. XIV OLD CHURCHES OF LONDON 185 circular vestibule. The stained glass windows, bothhere and at St.
Shakespeare's England . Greshams Monufnent, effigies of them, recumbent on the marble pavement, andfeel and know, as perhaps you never did before, thecalm that follows the tempest. St. Marys was built in1240 and restored in 1828. It would be difficult to finda lovelier specimen of Norman architecture — at oncemassive and airy, perfectly simple, yet rich with beauty,in every line and scroll. There is only one otherchurch in Great Britain, it is said, which has, like this, a. Golthmiths House. CHAP. XIV OLD CHURCHES OF LONDON 185 circular vestibule. The stained glass windows, bothhere and at St. Helens, are very glorious. The organ atSt. Marys was selected by Jeffreys, afterwards infamousas the wicked judge. The pilgrim who pauses to museat the grave of Goldsmith may often hear its solemn,mournful tones. I heard them thus, and was thinkingof Dr. Johnsons tender words, when he first learnedthat Goldsmith was dead: Poor Goldy was wild—verywild—but he is so no more. The room in which hedied, a heart-broken man at only forty-six, was but alittle way from the spot where he ^ The noises ofFleet Street are heard there only as a distant birds chirp over him, and leaves flutter down uponhis tomb, and every breeze that sighs around the grayturrets of the ancient Temple breathes out his requiem. ^ No. 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple. — In 1757-58 Goldsmith was em-ployed by a chemist, near Fish Street Hill. When he wrote his Inquiryinto the Prese
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