...fellow long since forgotten — had the malice and the luck to launch against him an immortal couplet : Lie heavy on him earth ! For he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Dr. Evans was a poor dog : 'furious madman' were the CHAP. words in which Gray described him in a letter...

...cash you are in want of any, Dig ten feet deep and you will find a Penny." On a bad architect : — "Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." A husband writes of his " better" half thus : — " Here rests my spouse ; no pair through life So...

...Vanbrugh, in Queen Anne's reign, and is one of the massive structures that gave rise to the epitaph on him, Lie heavy on him, Earth; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Castle Howard, a famous show-place four miles west of Malton, also was planned by him. The imposing...

...oppressive incubus, by all means let us bury DORA in the spirit of the epitaph proposed for Vanbrugh:— " Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." Nobody wants the coupon for its own sake. Nobody wants for their own sakes anything in the food restrictions,...

...passion for size amounting to megalomania," a characteristic satirised in the famous epitaph : — " Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." The writer has endeavoured — but endeavoured unsuccessfully — to visit Castle Howard on three several...

...Blenheim nor Castle Howard, vast as they are, is there a single comfortable room. * His epitaph ran — Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee ! The Adams brothers, who gave their name to Cb* JWams. the part of London where their graceful mantelpieces...

...remains had been deposited in the church a certain Dr. Evans thus referred to Vanbrugh's massive style : 'Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.' Sir Joshua Reynolds, however, took a different view, and declared that his critics failed to appreciate...

...Acton never recovered. Of George Eliot might have been repeated Swift's epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh : Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. It was the fatal error of George Eliot, so admirable, so elevated, so disinterested, that for the last...

...well-known epigram, erroneously as it seems atbrugh's ar- . , , <-. . r chitecture triDUted tO Swift , Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee conveys the popular impression produced by Vanbrugh's work. Though it can hardly be called beautiful,...

...it by the fame of the epigram (or at least the latter half of it) ascribed to one Abel Evans: * x' i Lie heavy on him earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. If Van's buildings were, unlike his plays, heavy and ornate, they were usually imposing and the wits...