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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs Of Westminster Abbey, In December. 1784,
lived many years together in great harmony . His death was thought the fore-runner of her own , after her own bad happened , which was in a few days . I think this is the only bird consigned to fame in Westminster-Abbey , by obtaining a place among kings . She wears the verydress she wore at the coronation of Queen Anne , in 1702 . Both these ladies are fine figures . Had they been otherwise , they could
not easily have found a place here . KNIGHTS' STALLS . The nave and the side aisles , in Henry the Seventh ' s chapel , are farther divided by the wainscot , which joins the pillars , and forms the stalls belonging to the Kni ghts of the Bath . 'On this wainscot are carved many ludicrous devices . They are well done , but I could not
tell to what they alluded . One is a man stooping down , with his posteriors bare , and a woman flogging him with great spirit with a birch rod . EDWARD THE FIFTH . In the north aisle of Henry the Seventh ' s chapel , we take the melancholy view of a monument raised by Charles the Second , to the
memory of two innocent children , Edward the Fifth , andhisbrotheiy . who fell by the ambition of their uncle . It fills a thinking mind with sorrow , to survej' - the great number of princes , since the conquest , who have fallen by the hand of violence . —This would induce him to extol a middle station ; too high to be despised , and too low to be envied . In this abstract life he may enjoy his amusements , his book , his friend , and his own thoughts .
QUEEN ELIZABETH . In the centre of this aisle rests Queen Elizabeth . AH the Tudors liein this chapel , except Henry the Eighth . Her stately monument , like many others , is too much elevated for the eye . The principal thing we wish to see is the enclosed remains - , but as this cannot be attained , the next is its likeness in effigy ; . / but by the extraordinary of the monument
height , the enquirer is prevented . She inherited the manly spirit and the mean jealousy of the Tudors . CHARLES THE SECOND . At the far end of the south aisle , in a wainscot press , glazed in the frontis a figure of Charles the Secondin waxand a dismal fi
, , , gure it is . I believe it a likeness . His face is marked with the coarsest lines that ever mark a face . Such a countenance , inspired with -life anel majesty , one should think , - would terrify the beholder ; and yet , ' to inspire terror , was no part of Charles ' s character . He seems about five feet nine , aud is dressed in the very robes he wore at the installation of the Kni ghts of the Garter at Windsor .
MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS . In the centre of this aisle , is the monument of Mary Queen of Scots , which her son , James the First , seems to have erected , as a rival monument to that in the sister aisle of Elizabeth .
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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs Of Westminster Abbey, In December. 1784,
lived many years together in great harmony . His death was thought the fore-runner of her own , after her own bad happened , which was in a few days . I think this is the only bird consigned to fame in Westminster-Abbey , by obtaining a place among kings . She wears the verydress she wore at the coronation of Queen Anne , in 1702 . Both these ladies are fine figures . Had they been otherwise , they could
not easily have found a place here . KNIGHTS' STALLS . The nave and the side aisles , in Henry the Seventh ' s chapel , are farther divided by the wainscot , which joins the pillars , and forms the stalls belonging to the Kni ghts of the Bath . 'On this wainscot are carved many ludicrous devices . They are well done , but I could not
tell to what they alluded . One is a man stooping down , with his posteriors bare , and a woman flogging him with great spirit with a birch rod . EDWARD THE FIFTH . In the north aisle of Henry the Seventh ' s chapel , we take the melancholy view of a monument raised by Charles the Second , to the
memory of two innocent children , Edward the Fifth , andhisbrotheiy . who fell by the ambition of their uncle . It fills a thinking mind with sorrow , to survej' - the great number of princes , since the conquest , who have fallen by the hand of violence . —This would induce him to extol a middle station ; too high to be despised , and too low to be envied . In this abstract life he may enjoy his amusements , his book , his friend , and his own thoughts .
QUEEN ELIZABETH . In the centre of this aisle rests Queen Elizabeth . AH the Tudors liein this chapel , except Henry the Eighth . Her stately monument , like many others , is too much elevated for the eye . The principal thing we wish to see is the enclosed remains - , but as this cannot be attained , the next is its likeness in effigy ; . / but by the extraordinary of the monument
height , the enquirer is prevented . She inherited the manly spirit and the mean jealousy of the Tudors . CHARLES THE SECOND . At the far end of the south aisle , in a wainscot press , glazed in the frontis a figure of Charles the Secondin waxand a dismal fi
, , , gure it is . I believe it a likeness . His face is marked with the coarsest lines that ever mark a face . Such a countenance , inspired with -life anel majesty , one should think , - would terrify the beholder ; and yet , ' to inspire terror , was no part of Charles ' s character . He seems about five feet nine , aud is dressed in the very robes he wore at the installation of the Kni ghts of the Garter at Windsor .
MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS . In the centre of this aisle , is the monument of Mary Queen of Scots , which her son , James the First , seems to have erected , as a rival monument to that in the sister aisle of Elizabeth .