London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
63. The tomb of John Blow, Doctor in music, is adorned with cherubs,
flowers, and a canon in four parts set to music. In the center is an
English inscription, by which it appears he was organist, composer,
and master to the children in the chapel royal thirty-five years, and
organist to this Abbey fifteen years; that he was scholar to Dr.
Christopher Gibbons; and master to the famous Mr. Purcell, and to most
of the eminent masters of his time. He died Oct. 1. 1708, in his
sixtieth year; and his epitaph observes, that his own musical
compositions, especially his church music, are a far nobler monument
to his memory than any other that can be raised to him.
64. We come now to the neat and elegant monument erected to the memory
of Dr. Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland. It is of the finest
marble beautified with an admirable new invented polish. The bust of
this worthy Archbishop is finely executed; his long flowing hair has
all the gracefulness of nature, without the smallest degree of that
stiffness which belongs to stone; and his venerable countenance
strikes the beholder with reverence. The ensigns of his dignity
wherewith the monument is adorned, are most exquisitely fine, and
every part about it discovers a masterly genius in the sculptor. The
inscription is inclosed in a beautiful border of porphyry, and is as
follows:
Dr. Hugh Boulter, late Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of all
Ireland, a Prelate so eminent for the accomplishments of his
mind, the purity of his heart, and the excellence of his life,
that it may be thought superfluous to specify his titles,
recount his virtues, or even erect a monument to his fame. His
titles he not only deserved, but adorned; his virtues are
manifest in his good works, which had never dazzled the public
eye, if they had not been too bright to be concealed; and as
to his fame, whosoever has any sense of merit, any reverence
for piety, any passion for his country, or any charity for
mankind, will assist in preserving it fair and spotless, that
when brass and marble shall mix with the dust they cover,
every succeeding age may have the benefit of his illustrious
example. He was born Jan. 4, 1671, was consecrated Bishop of
Bristol, 1718, translated to the Archbishopric of Armagh,
1723, and from thence to Heaven, Sept. 27, 1742.
65. A plain table monument erected to the memory of Dr. Samuel
Bradford, Bishop of Rochester, who died on the 14th of May 1731, in
the seventy-ninth year of his age. It contains a long Latin
inscription scarce legible, surrounded with the arms, and proper
ensigns of his several dignities.
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