Once, upon reading that line in the curious epitaph quoted in The Spectator; 'Born in New-England, did in London die;' he laughed and said, 'I do not wonder at this.

She was buried near him, and her tomb, built by her nephew, has the following epitaph: "Here rests in peace, near her husband, Maria Anne, Edle von Gluck, born Pergin.

Our readers will remember the humorous epitaph on him, in edifying contrast to Somerville's praise: 'Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead: If it had been his father, I'd much rather; Had it been his mother, Better than another; Were it his sister, Nobody would have miss'd her; Were it the whole generation, The better for the nation.

I had written it myself, I had tried to write a poetical epitaph, but in vain; my feelings refused to utter themselves in rhyme.

By the light of the moon, which shone in the midst of an unclouded sky, I attentively regarded these proud monuments, and curiosity impelled me to read the pompous epitaphs inscribed on them.

Ben Jonson's touching lyrical epitaph on a boy actor, Salathiel Pavy, who had for "three fill'd zodiacs" been "the stage's jewel," shows how highly the Elizabethans sometimes regarded boy actors.

" The poem closes with this fitting epitaph for the hero: "Quoth they that he was a world-king forsooth, The mildest of all men, unto men kindest, To his folk the most gentlest, most yearning of fame.

The humble intreaty to the reader to "praye for the soule of the departed," is not very elegantyet it is better calculated to recall the wanderings of morality, than the flattering epitaph, a Fame hovering in the air, or the suspended wreath of the remunerating angel.

take this long adieu; And sleep in peace next thy loved Montague! To strew fresh laurels, let the task be mine, A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine; Mine with true sighs thy absence to bemoan, And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone.

He would, however, undoubtedly have written a better epitaph in English, than in Latin.

" Colonel Musgrave had glanced toward the little headstone, with its rather lengthy epitaph, which marked the resting-place of this woman's only child; and then to the tall shaft whereon was engraved just "John Charteris."

His is the knightly figure that kneels above; and if Sir Walter Scott ever saw this tomb, he must have had an even greater than common disbelief in laudatory epitaphs, to venture on depicting Anthony Forster in such hues as blacken him in the romance.

And after reciting a frigid epitaph which he had written, "expressive of her modest worth," he winds up with"Say all that is kind of me to thy mother; and believe me, my Lydia, that I love thee most truly."

Next to the grim epitaph, I should be disposed to rank those which remind the passer-by of his transitory estate.

" A Correspondent writes:"I haven't an epitaph handy about BISMARCK, but here's one on a billiard-marker, buried, of course at Kew: "'Rem acu tetigi,' let this attest, Now he has gone away for his long rest.

The heathen epitaphs are loaded with titles of honor, and with the names of the offices which the dead had borne, and, like the modern Christian (?) epitaphs whose style has been borrowed from them, the vanity of this world holds its place above the grave.

On closer inspection, we found an almost illegible epitaph on the stone, and with difficulty made out this forlorn verse: "Poorly lived, And poorly died, Poorly buried, And no one cried.

Here I am struck with the text of an impressive epitaph, and there I see the delicate and elaborate workmanship of a skillful master.

" Here is a little epitaph that might have come from Simonides: "Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest Mad Destiny this tender stripling played: For a warm breast of ivory to his breast, She laid a slab of marble on his head.

The opening stanzas may be quoted as conveying a fair idea of the whole, which sustains its character of sprightly elegance for over a hundred lines, ending with the luckless Harpelus' epitaph: Phylida was a fayer mayde, And fresh as any flowre: Whom Harpalus the herdman prayed To be his paramour.

Ben Jonson's touching lyrical epitaph on a boy actor, Salathiel Pavy, who had for "three fill'd zodiacs" been "the stage's jewel," shows how highly the Elizabethans sometimes regarded boy actors.

For that lame boy was EpictetusEpictetus for whom was written the memorable epitaph: "I was Epictetus, a slave, and maimed in body, and a beggar for poverty, and dear to the immortals.

Within note (1) in the chancel some interlaced work on the N. and a piscina on the S.; (2) in the E. corner of the S. aisle a musical epitaph; (3) in one of the N. windows of the nave some fragments of ancient glass (the figure is said to be that of St Barbara: cp. Cucklington).

Near the ruins is a gravestone with the following mysterious epitaph: "IN LIFE I WROATH IN STONE; NOW LIFE IS GONE, I KNOW I SHALL BE RAISED BY A STONE AND B SUCH A STONE AS GIVETH LIVING BREATH AND SAVETH THE RIGHTEOUS FROM THE SECOND DEATH.

Kirby, in his account of the monasteries of Suffolk, says that here, on the tomb of one John Wiles, a bachelor, who died in 1694, is this odd jingling epitaph: Quod fuit esse quod est, quod non fuit esse quod esse Esse quod est non esse, quod est non erit esse.