 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 páginas
...prefixed to his poems beneath hi» print, " Nobles and commons, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve. Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher!" is said to have been taken from a Scotch epitaph in the church-yard of Dundee. Here lies... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 472 páginas
...Matthew Prier , * * Nobles , généalogistes , avec votre permission » ci-gît qui fut autrefois Mathieu Prior , The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? * *le fils d'Adam et d'Eve ; Bourbon ou Nassau remontent - ils plus haut ? ADDISO N. In verse his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 páginas
...Thou, my dear, wcrt born to dcy." EPITAPH. i. r Ml.,!:,. N. . ,• ; . and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of...Adam and of Eve; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? FOR MY OW* TOMBSTONE. To me 'twas given to die : to thcc 'tis given To live : ala-, ! om1 moment... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 páginas
...Thou, my dear, wert born to day." EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE. NOII.ES and heralds, by your leave, Here liés what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE. To me 'twas given to die : to thee 'tis given To live : alas ! one moment sets... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 páginas
...named the same according to the seven planets." Another authority to the same purpose is afforded by Prior: " The son of Adam and of Eve, " Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher.'" Is not the veneration with which we look up to antiquity f iartly owing to the influence... | |
 | 1812 - 156 páginas
...youth improve'; For cruel age, alas ! will come, CCLXXI1I. Epitaph. Nobles and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of ADAM and of EVE — Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ? CCLXXIV. GRIPE <m</ SHIFTER. Rich Gripe does all his thoughts and cunning bend, T' increase... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - 1813 - 440 páginas
...which adorn its walls. Z 3 Her • " Ix>! here good reader, by your leave, Beneath this atone, lies Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?" Her Grace's Dressing Room is a very pleasing apartment, and contains some curious specimens.... | |
 | John Britton, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 734 páginas
...which adorn its walls. Z3 Her • " Lo ! here good reader, by your leave. Beneath this stone, lies Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher .'" Her Grace's Dressing Room is a very pleasing apartment, and contains some curious specimens.... | |
 | Arthur (King.) - 1819 - 232 páginas
...epitaph, very happily ridicule the silly pride of ancestry : " Nobles and heralds, by your leave, " Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, " The son of...and of Eve ; " Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ?" Mr. Addison, the author of that much-admired work, " The Spectator," o3 now flourished. He served... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 páginas
...cried ; And so they lived, and so they died. EPITAPH EXTEMPORE. NOBLES and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve : — Can Stuart or Nassau claim higher? FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE. To me 'twas given to die ; to thee 'tis given... | |
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Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. 
