Curious Epitaphs
Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland.
作者：Andrews, William, 1848-1908
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共 103 题- CURIOUS EPITAPHS
- CURIOUS EPITAPHS
- WITH
- BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.,
- WILLIAM ANDREWS.
- EPITAPHS ON PARISH CLERKS AND SEXTONS 1
- TYPOGRAPHICAL EPITAPHS 14
- EPITAPHS ON SPORTSMEN 21
- EPITAPHS ON TRADESMEN 33
- BACCHANALIAN EPITAPHS 54
- EPITAPHS ON SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 65
- PUNNING EPITAPHS 84
- EPITAPHS ON MUSICIANS AND ACTORS 90
- EPITAPHS ON NOTABLE PERSONS 108
- MISCELLANEOUS EPITAPHS 150
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EPITAPHS 157
- INDEX 173
- EPITAPHS ON PARISH CLERKS AND SEXTONS.
- The following lines below his portrait are characteristic of his age:--
- Our next example is from Bingley, Yorkshire:--
- An epitaph from Saddleworth, Yorkshire, tells us:--
- TYPOGRAPHICAL EPITAPHS.
- EPITAPHS ON SPORTSMEN.
- Our next is written on Mills, the huntsman:--
- In the churchyard of Ecclesfield, may be read the following epitaph:--
- EPITAPHS ON TRADESMEN.
- Our next is from Berkeley, Gloucestershire:--
- The following is from Bolsover churchyard, Derbyshire:--
- At Rugby, on Joseph Cave, Dr. Hawksworth, wrote:--
- EDWARD CAVE,
- EDWARD CAVE,
- Our next is from the churchyard of Aliscombe, Devonshire:--
- On an Oxford bellows-maker, the following lines were written:--
- The following lines are on a cobbler:--
- In Rotherham churchyard the following is inscribed on a miller:--
- On a Bristol baker we have the following:--
- BACCHANALIAN EPITAPHS.
- The next, on John Scott, a Liverpool brewer, is rather rich in puns:--
- On a Butler in Ollerton church-yard is the following curious epitaph:--
- On an inn-keeper in Stockbridge, the next may be seen:--
- We extract, from a collection of epitaphs, the following on a publican:--
- At Chatham, on a drunkard, good advice is given:--
- From Tonbridge churchyard we glean the following:--
- EPITAPHS ON SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
- We have also from Yarmouth the next example:--
- The next example is from Bury St. Edmunds:--
- The following is inscribed on a gravestone in Fort William Cemetery:--
- A gravestone in Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, states:--
- The next is from Dartmouth Churchyard:--
- Another, on the south side of Selby churchyard:--
- We copied the following five epitaphs from Hessle-road cemetery, Hull:--
- A gravestone in Horncastle churchyard, Lincolnshire, has this epitaph:--
- On a sailor's gravestone in the burial-ground at Hamilton, we are told:--
- PUNNING EPITAPHS.
- Here is another from Lincoln Cathedral, on Dr. Otwell Hill:--
- In Bletchley, ob. 1615, on Mrs. Rose Sparke:--
- On a punster the following was written:--
- EPITAPHS ON MUSICIANS AND ACTORS.
- In Wakefield parish church a tablet bears an inscription as follows:--
- We copy the following from a monument in Holy Trinity Church, Hull:--
- The next is copied from a gravestone in Stoney Middleton churchyard:--
- Garrick's epitaph in Westminster Abbey, reads:--
- A monument placed in Westminster to the memory of Mrs. Pritchard states:--
- EPITAPHS ON NOTABLE PERSONS.
- On the west side:--
- In the parish registers the following entries occur:--
- JOHN OKEY,
- The next epitaph is from St. James's cemetery, Liverpool:--
- The inscription on his monument in the Abbey is as follows:--
- On his grave-stone these lines are inscribed:--
- On which the King wrote the following comment:--
- HIS EPITAPH.
- Next is a copy of an acrostic epitaph from Tewkesbury Abbey:--
- The following is from St. Julian's church, Shrewsbury:--
- In the burial-ground of the Island of Juan Fernandez, a monument states:--
- The following on a Hull character is from South Cave churchyard:--
- The following lines also appear on the same stone:--
- In Middleton Tyas Church, near Richmond, is the following:--
- MISCELLANEOUS EPITAPHS.
- Our example is from Bury St. Edmunds churchyard:--
- We are told that a tombstone in Creton churchyard states:--
- From Ashburton we have the following:--
- The following curious epitaph is from Wirksworth, Derbyshire:--
- TO THE CRITIC.
- This verse has been rendered thus:--
- Merlin's Cave, Richmond Park, 105
- PARISH CLERKS AND SEXTONS, EPITAPHS ON, 1.
- Parkyns, Thomas, 29
- PUNNING EPITAPHS, 84.
- SPORTSMEN, EPITAPHS ON, 21.
- Tonbridge, see Tunbridge
- TYPOGRAPHICAL EPITAPHS, 14.
- WORKS BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.
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