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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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nearby. The younger Pitt and Fox lie here too, but theirmonuments are in the north aisle of the nave. We haveseen so many of Foxs London residences: this is the last.Beneath the north aisle of the nave lie also men of science— Newton and Darwin and Herschel. In the south aisleof the nave are various generals and governors, Kneller,the painter, Isaac Watts, who wrote the hymns, Johnand Charles Wesley, Major Andre and David Livingstone.Poets Corner, which is a portion of the south transept,loses something of its impressiveness by being such a huddleand also by reason of certain trespassers there: a fault dueto lax standards of taste in the past. Had it been realisedthat the space of Westminster Abbey was limited, theright of burial there would long ago have been recognisedas too high an honour to be given indiscriminately to allto whom the label of poet was applied. We now use theword with more care. The Rev. William Mason andNicholas Rowe, John Phillips and St. Evremond, even i4 ^i*
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WKSIMINSIKk \ltHKV THE CHAPELS 283 Gay and Prior, strike one in the light of interlopers.Only by dying when they did could they have found theirway hither. And certain of the monuments are far toolarge, particularly that to John, Duke of Argyll andGreenwich, by the exuberant Roubilliac, — no matter howCanova may have admired it. The plain slabs that coverJohnson and Dickens, Browning and Tennyson, are moreto ones hking; or such simple medallions as that to JennyLind. Shakespeare and Milton are only commemoratedhere; but Chaucer and Spenser, Jonson ( O rare Ben Jon-son runs his epitaph) and Dryden, Gray and Cowley —all these and many others lie at Westminster. So far all has been free; but the choir is not free, andyou must be conducted there officially. The Abbey guidesare good and not impatient men, with quite enough historyfor ordinary purposes and an amusing pride in their powersof elocution. They lead their little flock from chapel tochapel, like shepherds in the East, treadin

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