 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...inscription on a tablet to his memory in Westminster-Abbey was written by Dryden: Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq. who left this life, And is gone to that blessed place, Where only his harmony can be exceeded : who appears to have much respected him.8 Some other composer, therefore, was to be resorted to, Obiit... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...on a tablet to his memory in Westminster-Abbey was written by Drydcn: i Here lies * ' HENRY PURCELL, Esq. , who left this life, And is gone to that blessed place, Where only his harmony can be exceeded : who appears to hare much respected him.1 Some ' other composer, therefore, was to be resorted to.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...inscription on a tablet to his memory in Westminster-Abbey was written by Dryden : Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq. who left this life, And is gone to that blessed place, Where only his harmony tan be exceeded : who appears to have much respected him.8 Some other composer, therefore, was to be... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1806 - 284 pages
...And there do lay, till Christ do say Come out ye dead. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq. Who left this life, and is gone to that blessed place, Where only his own harmony can be exceeded. Obiit21 die Novembris, Anno . lvt;ilis suffi 37. BY WA WILLIS, MD HERE... | |
 | Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...And there dtyJay, till Christ do say Come out jro dead. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq. Who left this life, and is gone to that blessed place, Where only his own harmony can be exceeded. Obiit 2i die Novembris, Anno JStatis suae 37. Anno. Dom. 1695. BY WA WILLIS,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...internal evidence, that the poet contributed the inscription, which runs thus : Here tici HENRY PURCELL, ESQ. Who left this life, And is gone to that blessed place, Where only his harmony can be exceeded. Obiit 21 TOO die Novembris, Anno cetatis suce yjmo, Annoq. Domini, 1695. • I have here inserted the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...internal evidence, i hat the poet contributed the inscription, which runs thus : Here lies HENRY PDHCELL, ESQ. Who left this life. And is gone to that blessed place, Where only his harmony can be exceeded. Obiit 21mo die Novembris, Anno a't at is sine 37tno, Annoq. Domini, 1695. • I have here inserted... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...on a tablet fixed to a pillar is the following remarkable inscription : " Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq. who left this life, and is gone to that blessed place, where only his harmony can be exceeded. Obiit 21mo die Novembris, anno retails suse 37mo, annoque Domini 1695." i PURCHAS (SAMUEL), a learned... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...were interred in Westminster-abbey, where an inscripr tion to his memory tells the reader that " he is gone to that blessed place, where only his harmony can be exceeded." He left a widow and family slenderly provided for. His friends for their benefit promoted a publication... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - Music - 1814 - 524 pages
...passage just cited, has not improbably been attributed to Dryden : Here lies Henry Purcell, Esquire, Who left this life, And is gone to that blessed Place Where only his Harmony Can be exceeded. Obiit 21 mo. die Novembris, Anno Ectatis suae 37 mo. Anno. Domini, 1695. The public are greatly indebted... | |
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Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq., who left this life, and is gone to that blessed place where only his harmony can be exceeded. 
