...underwent a striking transformation, and became, in a manner, a new school in art: one man aloue " Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." It may be remarked that Sir John was not so bigoted to the creations of his own brain, but that throughout...

...many edifices on an extensive scale, they are costly without grandeur, and large without sublimity. The heaviness that pervades the buildings erected...generally admitted, that he succeeded more than any other architect in forming a general whole, which, when viewed at a distance, possesses a magnificent and...

...upon. — Death lies on her like an untimely fhow'r Upon the fweeteft flow'r of all the iield. Shak. Lie heavy on him, earth ; for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Epitaph on Vanbrugh. 3. To be repofitcd in the grave. — All the kingb of the nations lit in glory,...

...their ancestors ?" In his character of architect, Dr Evans bestowed on him the following epitaph : — Lie heavy on him, Earth ' for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Blenheim, and Castle Howard, are amongst his greatest and best works ; and let no one, who has not...

...their ancestors ?" In his character of architect, Dr Evans bestowed on him the following epitaph :— Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Blenheim, and Castle Howard, are amongst his greatest and best works ; and let no one, who has not...

...himself a poet, and therefore possessed numerous enemies amongst the wits. Those sharply-pointed lines, " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for He " Laid many a heavy load on Tbee," have proved more injurious to his reputation as an architect, than all the animadversions of...

...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There is another...

...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There is another...

...beauties, cumbrous and inelegant in detail. Swift's epigram on this artist is pretty generally known:— ' Lie heavy on him, earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load cm thee.' Yet Castle Howard and Blenheim will keep alive the name and memory of Vanbrugh among those...

...prayer, in the epigram on Sir John Vanbrugh, in allusion to the ponderous character of his edifices — " Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load ou thee." * The thought of being married to death is not uncommon in the Greek and Latin writers. There...