 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - Authors, English - 1873 - 310 pages
...by that charming old biographer, Isaac Walton : — "A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of...bring with it a board of the just height of his body. That being got ; then, without delay, a choice painter was got to be in readiness to draw his picture,... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 556 pages
...directions, the like of which was never heard of before or since. In his last illness, " Dr. Donne sent for a carver, to make for him, in wood, the figure...the compass and height of it, and to bring with it aboard of the height of his 242 THE AMERICAN BIBLIOPOLIST. body : these being got, then, without delay,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...was made that marks his interment in St. Paul's2 : — A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of...picture, which was taken' as followeth. — Several charcoal fires being first made in his large study, he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1881 - 396 pages
...persuasion of Dr Fox, was induced to give orders for his own monument. He sent for a carver to make in wood the figure of an urn, giving him directions for the dimensions, and ordered him to bring with it a board of the height of his body. These orders having... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...for him in wood tho figure of an urn. giráf him directions for the compass and height of it; aad a bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. " Tb* being got, then without delay a choice painter wae got to t» in readiness to draw his picture,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1884 - 498 pages
...monument 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...giving him directions for the compass and height of it -r and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. " These being got, then without delay... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...monument 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...height of it, and to bring with it a board, of the iust height of his body. " These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got to be in readiness... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...monument 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...height of it, and to bring with it a board, of the iust height of his body. " These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got to be in readiness... | |
 | Religion - 1892 - 702 pages
...the figure of an urn, giving him directions for the compass and height of it, and to bring with him a board of the just height of his body. These being...readiness to draw his picture, which was taken as followed). Several charcoal fires being first made in his large study, he brought with him into that... | |
 | John Donne - English poetry - 1895 - 330 pages
...Walton tells us that, just before his death, Donne, having resolved to have a monument made, " sent for a carver to make for him in wood the figure of...his picture, which was taken as followeth: Several charcoal fires being first made in his large study he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet... | |
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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... 
