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" A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of an urn, giving him directions for the compass and height of it, and to bring with it a board of the just height of his body. These being got, then, without... "
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 113
1820
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Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and ...

Valeria Finucci, Kevin Brownlee - History - 2001 - 342 pages
...(disputed) account of the preparations for the memorial: A Monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a Carver to make for him in wood the figure of an vrn, giving him directions for the compass and height of it; and to bring with it a board of the just...
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Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

G. Gabrielle Starr - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 318 pages
...using it as a writing desk may remind us of Walton's account of the death of Donne: Dr. Donne sent for a Carver to make for him in wood the figure of an Urn, giving him direction for the compass and height of it; and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel

John Donne - Literary Collections - 2007 - 245 pages
...it should be; that was left to Dr. Donne himself. A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of an...height of it; and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. " These being got, then without delay a choice painter " was got to be in...
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