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. Select epigrams - Página 19por Select epigrams - 1797Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...dignity of ambassador." He had been thinking of slights of this sort when he wrote his 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 claim higher ?" But, in this ease, the old prejudice... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...of embassador." He had been thinking of slights of this sort when he wrote his 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 claim higher ?" But, in this case, the old prejudice... | |
| Matthew Prior, John Mitford - 1853 - 400 páginas
...thy face ; Then let me hear thee smiling say, Thou, my dear, wert born to-day. EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE. 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 ? FOR MY OWN MONUMENT. As doctors give physic... | |
| 1854 - 778 páginas
...the omission, if such it be. HENRY H. BREJEW. St. Lucia. [The following is a copy of the 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 claim higher ? "3 Handwriting (Vol. viii., p. 639.).... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...dignity of ambassador." He had beer, thinking of slights of this sort wncn he wrote his 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 claim higher?" But, in this case, the old prejudice... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 páginas
...ambassador." He had been thinking of slights of this sort wnen he wrote his Epitaph : — " Nobles Rnd 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 pri-judico... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 páginas
...there was a kind of ' set ' among various people against family pretensions. Prior* had said, — ' 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 ?' And against aristocracy, viewed as a merely... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1857 - 468 páginas
...followed, whereupon a novitiate of the Feudality party seized the ear of the house, and repeated, " 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 f " "And blockheads think," added the novitiate,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 360 páginas
...ambassador." He had been thinking of slights of this sort when he wrote his Epitaph : — " Cobles and heralds by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and oi Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? " " Thee, gracious Anne, thee present... | |
| Matthew Prior - 1860 - 358 páginas
...thy face ; Then let me hear thee smiling say, Thou, my dear, wert born to-day. EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE. 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 ? FOR MY OWN MONUMENT. As doctors give physic... | |
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