A marble statue of Queen Anne in an enclosed piece of ground in the
west front of the church is something of an ornament to that side.
The size of the bell of St. Paul's is also worthy of notice, as it
is reckoned one of those that are deemed the largest in Europe. It
takes its place, they say, next to that at Vienna.
Everything that I saw in St. Paul's cost me only a little more than
a shilling, which I paid in pence and halfpence, according to a
regulated price, fixed for every different curiosity.
Westminster Abbey.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I
went to see Westminster Abbey.
I entered at a small door, which brought me immediately to the
poets' corner, where the monuments and busts of the principal poets,
artists, generals, and great men, are placed.
Not far from the door, immediately on my entrance, I perceived the
statue of Shakespeare, as large as life; with a band, &c., in the
dress usual in his time.
A passage out of one of Shakespeare's own plays (the Tempest), in
which he describes in the most solemn and affecting manner, the end,
or the dissolution of all things, is here, with great propriety, put
up as his epitaph; as though none but Shakespeare could do justice
to Shakespeare.
