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Identifier: shakespearesengl00wint (find matches)
Title: Shakespeare's England
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: England -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Sir John Crosbys Momiment. drooping head, the glittering eyes, the nervous handthat toyed with the dagger, and the stealthy stillness ofhis person, from head to foot, as he knelt there beforethe priest and perhaps mocked both himself and heavenwith the form of prayer. Every place that Richardtouched is haunted by his magnetic presence. In an-other part of the church you are shown the tomb of aperson whose will provided that the key of his sepulchre XIV OLD CHURCHES OF LONDON 183 should be placed beside his body, and that the doorshould be opened once a year, for a hundred years. Itseems to have been his expectation to awake and arise ;but the allotted century has passed and his bones arestill quiescent. How calmly they sleep — those warriors who oncefilled the world with the tumult of their deeds ! If yougo into St. Marys, in the Temple, you will stand abovethe dust of the Crusaders and see the beautiful copper
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Greshams Tilonument. effigies of them, recumbent on the marble pavement, andfeel and know, as perhaps you never did before, thecalm that follows the tempest. St. Marys was built in1240 and restored in 1828. It would be difficult to finda lovelier specimen of Norman architecture — at oncemassive and airy, perfectly simple, yet rich with beauty,in every line and scroll. There is only one otherchurch in Great Britain, it is said, which has, like this, a

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