 | Christianity - 1882 - 662 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room, and found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of perfect peace on the calm features.' He was a fine but gentle spirit ; and it is not a pleasing reflection — seeing the lavish profusion... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pages
...mortal remains of Sir Christopher Wren. On a black marble slab are the following simple words : HERB LIETH SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, The builder of this Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Ac. Who dyed In the year of Our Lord MDCCXXIII. And of his age XCI.1 TOMB OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) - 1869 - 588 pages
...mortal remains of Sir Christopher Wren. On a black marble slab are the following simple words : HEBE LIETH SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, The builder of this Cathedral Church of St. Paul, &c. Who dyed In the year of Our Lord MDCCXXIII. And of his age XCI.1 1 The inscription, which once appeared... | |
 | charlotte m. yonge - 1878 - 632 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room :md found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of...perfect peace on the calm features. They buried him by his daughter in the vault of S. Paul's with this inscription : ' Hero lieth Sir Christopher Wren,... | |
 | 1878 - 632 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room and found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of...perfect peace on the calm features. They buried him by his daughter in the vault of S. Paul's with this inscription : ' Here lieth Sir Christopher Wren,... | |
 | 1878 - 636 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room and found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of...perfect peace on the calm features. They buried him by his (laughter in the vault of S. Paul's with this inscription : ' Here lieth Sir Christopher Wren,... | |
 | Lucy Phillimore - Great Britain - 1881 - 426 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room and found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of perfect peace on the calm features. 3. PIcPEhSCrRewWErMOeVInNGmWHdEEcLScFRxOMiPipe screwe moving wheels from BEvAKzE. beake. Omitted letters... | |
 | Lucy Phillimore - Architects - 1881 - 392 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room and found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of perfect peace on the calm features. 3. PIcPEhSCrRewWErMOeVInNGmWHdEEcLScFRxOMiPipe screwe moving wheels from BEvAKzE. beake. Omitted letters... | |
 | Archaeology - 1882 - 356 pages
...thinking Sir Christopher had slept longer after dinner than was his wont, came into the room and found his master dead in his chair, with an expression of...of St. Paul, &c., who died in the year of our Lord MDCCXXHI., and of his age XCI. ' The spite of those who had hampered his genuis in life showed itself... | |
 | Cathedrals - 1889 - 418 pages
...Wren are at the east end of the crypt, in the south aisle ; a black marble slab has these words: " Here lieth Sir Christopher Wren; the Builder of this Cathedral Church of St. Paul, etc., who dyed in the year of our Lord mdccxxiii, and of his age xci." Not far from Wren's feet are... | |
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... was his habit to be driven to London, and to sit for a while under the dome of his own Cathedral. On one of these journeys he caught a cold, and soon afterwards, on February... 
