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Title: The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons : comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Blore, Edward, 1787-1879 Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments Nobility
Publisher: London : Harding, Lepard and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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tion of the inter-mediate pinnacles, which had probably only sustained partialinjury, appear to have been recently accomplished; and al-though uniformity was probably intended, and has certainlybeen attained, the beauty of the monument has, in our opinion,been altogether sacrificed for its accomplishment. Some minorerrors have been committed, in the application of the fragmentsof pinnacles to shafts, with which they have no connexion, aswell as by adapting finials to the tops of canopies to whichthey could never have belonged. If we were not cautious of drawing down upon ourselves andour book the censures of our Wiccamical friends, we should,perhaps, hazard an opinion, that the effigy of their founder isnot altogether genuine. Certain it is, that it will bear no com-parison, either in design or execution, with almost any similarspecimen of the age to which it professes to belong; nor hasthe artist, whoever he may be, any reason to regret that hisname has not descended to posterity. 10
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fubbsh&i SeptTZS. 1825. by Bardiru/, Trip/wok &LeparcLFinsbwy Squaro.ZcmdoTL. JOHN GOWER. DIED 1408. MONUMENT AT ST. SAVIOURS, SOUTHWARK. The early accounts of John Gower, the contemporary andfriend of Chaucer, and himself a poet of great merit and nomean celebrity, are of a most contradictory nature. Lelandhad received information, that he was descended from theGowers of Stitenham, in Yorkshire :— vir equestris ordinis, exStitenhamo villa Eboracensis provincise, ut ego accepi, origi-nem ducens; Weever expressly says, that he was descendedfrom a family, a branch of which resided at Braborne, in Kent;and Caxton, in the first edition of the Confessio Amantis, isequally positive that he was a Welshman, borne in Walys, inthe tyme of Kyng Richard the Second. Caxtons* assertionwould have considerable weight, if it did not so happen that, inthe second and third editions of Gowers poem, this informa-tion relative to his native country does not appear, whence wemay safely conclude, t

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