Author: T. B. (Thomas Bastard)

Cited by

• Washington Irving (1)
  • IN: Westminster Abbey (1820) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I behold, with deep astonishment, To famous Westminster how there resorte, Living in brasse or stoney monument, The princes and the worthies of all sorte; Doe not I see reformde nobilitie, Without contempt, or pride, or ostentation, And looke upon offenseless majesty, Naked of pomp or earthly domination? And how a play-game of a painted stone Contents the quiet now and silent sprites, Whome all the world which late they stood upon Could not content nor quench their appetites. Life is a frost of cold felicitie, And death the thaw of all our vanitie.
    FROM: Christolero's Epigrams, (1598), Poem, NULL