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% HISTORY OF
Ne cui vivo deerant fere omnia,
Deessetetiam mortuo Tumulus,
Hoc tandem posito marmore curavit
Johannes Barber, civis Londinensis, 1721.
(92) . Edmund Spenser.-Beneath the last monument there was a rough
decayed tomb, of Purbeck stone, to the memory of this great poet, which being
greatly decayed, was restored, in 1778, by a private subscription, suggested and
promoted by Mr. Mason.
" Here lies, expecting the second coming of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the
" body of Edmund Spenser, the prince of poets in his time, whose divine spirit
" needs no other witness than the works which he left behind him. He was born
" in London, in 1553, and died in 1598."
(93) . John Milton.-A fine bust of the immortal poet, by Rysbrack, is
accompanied with the following inscription beneath it:
" In the year of our Lord Christ 1737, this bust of the author of Paradise
" Lost was placed here by William Benson, Esquire, one of the two auditors of
" the Imprests to his Majesty King George II. and formerly surveyor-general of
" the Works to his Majesty King George I."
(94) . Thomas Gray.--Beneath the monument of Milton, in a situation
expressly chosen for the memorial of a congenial spirit and sublime poet, is a
pleasing figure of the Lyric Muse in alto relievo, by Bacon, holding a medallion,
a striking resemblance of Mr. Gray, in one hand, and pointing with the other to
the bust above. Beneath are four lines by his friend Mason.
No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns;
To Britain let the nations homage pay :
She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains,
A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
" He died July 30, 1771, aged fifty-four."
Ne cui vivo deerant fere omnia,
Deessetetiam mortuo Tumulus,
Hoc tandem posito marmore curavit
Johannes Barber, civis Londinensis, 1721.
(92) . Edmund Spenser.-Beneath the last monument there was a rough
decayed tomb, of Purbeck stone, to the memory of this great poet, which being
greatly decayed, was restored, in 1778, by a private subscription, suggested and
promoted by Mr. Mason.
" Here lies, expecting the second coming of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the
" body of Edmund Spenser, the prince of poets in his time, whose divine spirit
" needs no other witness than the works which he left behind him. He was born
" in London, in 1553, and died in 1598."
(93) . John Milton.-A fine bust of the immortal poet, by Rysbrack, is
accompanied with the following inscription beneath it:
" In the year of our Lord Christ 1737, this bust of the author of Paradise
" Lost was placed here by William Benson, Esquire, one of the two auditors of
" the Imprests to his Majesty King George II. and formerly surveyor-general of
" the Works to his Majesty King George I."
(94) . Thomas Gray.--Beneath the monument of Milton, in a situation
expressly chosen for the memorial of a congenial spirit and sublime poet, is a
pleasing figure of the Lyric Muse in alto relievo, by Bacon, holding a medallion,
a striking resemblance of Mr. Gray, in one hand, and pointing with the other to
the bust above. Beneath are four lines by his friend Mason.
No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns;
To Britain let the nations homage pay :
She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains,
A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
" He died July 30, 1771, aged fifty-four."