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  • It seems a little strange to the visitor to see so great a display of such vanities as these in a street called a Churchyard; but there are a great many such apparent inconsistencies between the names and uses of the streets in London.

    Rollo in London Jacob Abbott 1841

  • As the editors of the new Spenser papers continue, 'Churchyard's representation of Gibert's policies may seem extreme, but similar kinds of humanist arguments were adduced to explain and apologise for similar kinds of events - on the English side - throughout Spenser's period in Ireland'.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • As the editors of the new Spenser papers continue, 'Churchyard's representation of Gibert's policies may seem extreme, but similar kinds of humanist arguments were adduced to explain and apologise for similar kinds of events - on the English side - throughout Spenser's period in Ireland'.

    Dead heads and humanists 2009

  • The following lines will recall to every reader corresponding passages in Gray's "Churchyard":

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • "Churchyard;" but, in my opinion, Gray has the advantage in dignity, variety, and originality of sentiment.

    Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • The "Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

    Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • The same humility which marked a hatter and a housekeeper for the friends of the author of the "Night Thoughts," had before bestowed the same title on his footman, in an epitaph in his "Churchyard" upon James Baker, dated 1749; which I am glad to find in the late collection of his works.

    Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • And then, having caused a grave to be made in the unconsecrated part of what is called the Churchyard, they forcibly took the body from the widow, and buried it there. "

    Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And then, having caused a grave to be made in the unconsecrated part of what is called the Churchyard, they forcibly took the body from the widow, and buried it there. "

    Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And then, having caused a grave to be made in the unconsecrated part of what is called the Churchyard, they forcibly took the body from the widow, and buried it there. "

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

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