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WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
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" tation of vice, however dignified; reverence for virtue, however disgraced.
" Charles and Catharine Duke and Duchess of Queensberry, who loved this
" excellent person living, and regret him dead, have caused this monument to be
" erected to his memory."
He died December 4, 1732, aged forty-five.
(106) . Oliver Goldsmith, M. D.--Over the door of the chapel of St.
Blase is a tablet, with a medallion, a curtain, and emblems of the various talents
of this very ingenious and eccentric man. It is by Nollekens. The epitaph was
composed by Dr. Johnson.
" Olivarii Goldsmith, poetre, physici, historici, qui nullum fere scribendi
" genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit: sive risus essent movendi,
" sive lacrimal, affectuum potens, at lenis dominator: ingenio sublimis, vividus,
** versatilis, oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus: hoc monumento memoriam
" coluit sodalium amor, amicorum fides, lectorum veneratio. Natus in Hibernia
" Forneise Longfordiensis, in loco cui nomen Pallas, Nov. 29, 1731: Eblanse
«« literis institutus; obiit Londini,- April. 4, 1774."
(107) . John Duke of Argyle.-This superb, elegant, and lofty monument
is the work of Roubiliac. It consists of a pedestal supporting a sarcophagus, on
which the effigy of this distinguished nobleman reclines, accompanied with mili-
tary trophies. A beautiful figure, representing History in the act of tracing the
inscription on a pyramid, is finely imagined, but has a rival in the form of
Eloquence below, whose attitude and extended arm denote that she is proclaiming
the virtues which are described. The animation of this statue is most happily
expressed, and withdraws the attention from the opposite figure of Minerva, whose
tranquil character forms a contrast to the more active offices of the others. The
bas-relief is inferior to the other parts of this splendid memorial. On the pyramid
are the following verses, written by Paul Whitehead:
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107
" tation of vice, however dignified; reverence for virtue, however disgraced.
" Charles and Catharine Duke and Duchess of Queensberry, who loved this
" excellent person living, and regret him dead, have caused this monument to be
" erected to his memory."
He died December 4, 1732, aged forty-five.
(106) . Oliver Goldsmith, M. D.--Over the door of the chapel of St.
Blase is a tablet, with a medallion, a curtain, and emblems of the various talents
of this very ingenious and eccentric man. It is by Nollekens. The epitaph was
composed by Dr. Johnson.
" Olivarii Goldsmith, poetre, physici, historici, qui nullum fere scribendi
" genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit: sive risus essent movendi,
" sive lacrimal, affectuum potens, at lenis dominator: ingenio sublimis, vividus,
** versatilis, oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus: hoc monumento memoriam
" coluit sodalium amor, amicorum fides, lectorum veneratio. Natus in Hibernia
" Forneise Longfordiensis, in loco cui nomen Pallas, Nov. 29, 1731: Eblanse
«« literis institutus; obiit Londini,- April. 4, 1774."
(107) . John Duke of Argyle.-This superb, elegant, and lofty monument
is the work of Roubiliac. It consists of a pedestal supporting a sarcophagus, on
which the effigy of this distinguished nobleman reclines, accompanied with mili-
tary trophies. A beautiful figure, representing History in the act of tracing the
inscription on a pyramid, is finely imagined, but has a rival in the form of
Eloquence below, whose attitude and extended arm denote that she is proclaiming
the virtues which are described. The animation of this statue is most happily
expressed, and withdraws the attention from the opposite figure of Minerva, whose
tranquil character forms a contrast to the more active offices of the others. The
bas-relief is inferior to the other parts of this splendid memorial. On the pyramid
are the following verses, written by Paul Whitehead:
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