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Article ST. SAVIOUR'S AND ITS MONUMENTS. ← Page 7 of 9 →
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St. Saviour's And Its Monuments.
beauty ; Minerva , with her helmet , presented evidences palpably sufficient for the workers in that high school of art . But it is not without interest to observe the faithfulness with which the mediaeval artists wrought ; ancl no better proofs of their successful endeavours to realize the * ra in ivhich they lived , ancl moved , and hacl their beingcan be exhibited than those which are left
, us in their sculptured memorials of departed worthies . That the taste of the Stuart dynasty , as centred in Charles the Second , did not advance in the development of the beautiful , may be witnessed in the effigy of Dr . Lockyer , who was buried in St . Saviour ' s , ancl who is shown as large as life , reclining on pillow's , in a thoughtful attitude , Avith his head resting on his
hand in a sort of dolce far niente style . He is dressed in a gown of close fur , and has been evidently on good terms with his barber , if Ave may judge by the thick bushy wig ivhich is so conspicuous an object of his attire . He was a celebrated quack doctor , his Christian name Lionel , and his pills the ne plus ultra of empirical virtue . But his epitaph says more than we can otherwise discover of his goodness and his talent : —
" His virtues and his pills so well are known , That envy can't confine them under stone ; But they'll survive his dust , and not expire Till all things else , at th' universal fire . This verse is lost , his pills embalm him safe To future times , without an epitaph . "
This is not more ludicrous in its way than the flattery bestowed on a Miss Barford , Avho " Such grace the King of Kings bestowed upon her , That now she lives with him a maid of honour . " Or that upon one Garret , or Garrard , Avhose stone is headed with the armorial bearings of the Grocers' Company : —
" Garret some call'd him , but that ivas too bye , His name is Garrard who now here doth lye ; He in his youth was toss'd with many a wave , But now at port arriv'd , rests in his grave . The church he did frequent while he had breath , And wish'd to lie therein after liis death . Weepe not for him , since he is gone before
To heaven , where grocers there are many more . " But that St . Saviour ' s can boast of more than one truly poetical epitaph has been sufficiently testified ; one more may , however , be cited , not alone for its apposite language , but for its quiet quaintness and concentrated force of sentiment . The deceased must have died young , and , it is to be presumed , Avithout having experienced any great vicissitudes , or encoun-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
St. Saviour's And Its Monuments.
beauty ; Minerva , with her helmet , presented evidences palpably sufficient for the workers in that high school of art . But it is not without interest to observe the faithfulness with which the mediaeval artists wrought ; ancl no better proofs of their successful endeavours to realize the * ra in ivhich they lived , ancl moved , and hacl their beingcan be exhibited than those which are left
, us in their sculptured memorials of departed worthies . That the taste of the Stuart dynasty , as centred in Charles the Second , did not advance in the development of the beautiful , may be witnessed in the effigy of Dr . Lockyer , who was buried in St . Saviour ' s , ancl who is shown as large as life , reclining on pillow's , in a thoughtful attitude , Avith his head resting on his
hand in a sort of dolce far niente style . He is dressed in a gown of close fur , and has been evidently on good terms with his barber , if Ave may judge by the thick bushy wig ivhich is so conspicuous an object of his attire . He was a celebrated quack doctor , his Christian name Lionel , and his pills the ne plus ultra of empirical virtue . But his epitaph says more than we can otherwise discover of his goodness and his talent : —
" His virtues and his pills so well are known , That envy can't confine them under stone ; But they'll survive his dust , and not expire Till all things else , at th' universal fire . This verse is lost , his pills embalm him safe To future times , without an epitaph . "
This is not more ludicrous in its way than the flattery bestowed on a Miss Barford , Avho " Such grace the King of Kings bestowed upon her , That now she lives with him a maid of honour . " Or that upon one Garret , or Garrard , Avhose stone is headed with the armorial bearings of the Grocers' Company : —
" Garret some call'd him , but that ivas too bye , His name is Garrard who now here doth lye ; He in his youth was toss'd with many a wave , But now at port arriv'd , rests in his grave . The church he did frequent while he had breath , And wish'd to lie therein after liis death . Weepe not for him , since he is gone before
To heaven , where grocers there are many more . " But that St . Saviour ' s can boast of more than one truly poetical epitaph has been sufficiently testified ; one more may , however , be cited , not alone for its apposite language , but for its quiet quaintness and concentrated force of sentiment . The deceased must have died young , and , it is to be presumed , Avithout having experienced any great vicissitudes , or encoun-