 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 pages
...Fletcher) was buried at St. Saviour's as "a stranger," printing the words in capital letters: — " Even the memorial of his mortality is given with a...life: 'March 20, 1639-40, buried, Philip Massinger, A STKANGEH.' No flowers were flung into his grave," &c. The fact is, that every person there interred,... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...sunshine. Life was to him one long wintry day, and " shadows, clouds and darkness" sat upon it. Етеп the memorial of his mortality is given "with a pathetic...with the obscure and humble passages of his life. It dimply states : " March 20, 1639-40, buried Philip Massinger, a ttranger !" The last lines penned... | |
 | 1847 - 666 pages
...self-abasement, as if a mendicant asked ahus. He was buried in the church-yard of St. Sonthwark; and he (in his celebrated work, A Pickle for thc Knowing Ones) " iuscription of any kind ever marked the spot sacred to the dust of Massinger; even the memorial of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...buried in the churchyard of St. Saviour's, and his fellow-comedians attended him to the grave ; but it does not appear from the strictest search that...which accords but too well with the obscure and humble circumstances of his life : " March 20, 1639-40. buried Philip Massinger, a stranger ;" t and of all... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...buried in the churchyard of St. Saviour's, and his fellow-comedians attended him to the grave ; but it does not appear from the strictest search that...which accords but too well with the obscure and humble circumstances of his life : " March 20, 1639-40, buried Philip Massinger, a stranger ;" t and of all... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pages
...the church-yard of St. Saviour's, and his fellow-comedians attended him to the grave ; but it docs not appear from the strictest search that a stone...which accords but too well with the obscure and humble circumstances of his life — " March 20, 1639^10, buried Ph'I p Massinger, a stranger;"* and of all... | |
 | Philip Massinger, William Gifford - 1856 - 594 pages
...St. Saviour's, and the comedians paid the last sad duty to his name, by attending him to the grave. It does not appear, from the strictest search, that...obscure and humble passages of his life : " March 30, 1639-40. buried Philip Massinger, л STRANGER!" No flowers were flung into his grave, no elegies... | |
 | Henry Lea - 1859 - 302 pages
...self-abasement as if a mendicant asked alms. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Saviour's, South wark ; and it does not appear, from the strictest search, that a stone or inscription of any kind ever marked the spot where lies the dust of the poet. Even the memorial of hie mortality is givem with... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1860 - 600 pages
...St. Saviour's, and the comedians paid the last sad duty to his name, by attending him to the grave. It does not appear, from the strictest search, that...or inscription of any kind, marked the place where bis dust was deposited • even the memorial of his mortality is given with a pathetic brevity, which... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 516 pages
...does no monument appear to have been raised over his remains, but as Campbell the poet observes—" even the memorial of his mortality is given with a...which accords but too well with the obscure and humble circumstances of his life." It runs— • See Collins' "Peerage," by SirEgerton Brydges, vol. ii.,... | |
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It does not appear, from the strictest search, that a stone, or inscription of any kind, marked the place where his dust was deposited : even the memorial of his mortality is given with a pathetic brevity, which accords but too well with the obscure and... 
