 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 - 1873 - 610 páginas
...dignity of ambassador." He had bcen 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 Nassan claim higher?" Bnt, in this case, the old prejudice... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1873 - 514 páginas
...Voltaire on a bird, while Prior demolishes the pretensions of Westminster Abbey in four lines : — " 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 ? " The following is from a stone in Copp's... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1873 - 516 páginas
...Voltaire on a bird, while Prior demolishes the pretensions of Westminster Ahbey in four lines : — " 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 ? " The following is from a stone in Copp's... | |
 | William Fairley - 1875 - 208 páginas
...Chambers' 's Cyclopcedia of Literature, the following are the exact lines that were written by Prior : — 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 ? 2ioa. On THOMAS KEMP, who was hanged for... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 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 ? " Bat, in this case, the old prejudice... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...29) refers it to Plato : "EXryev 6 nXdrow, ras e'.\7r,'o«v typrfyopoTwv avdpanr1ov ovdpovs tlva1. 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?1 Epitaph on Himself. Odds life ! must... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...Cordelier. And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Till all the whores were burnt alive. Paulo Purganti. 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 Epitaph on Jfimself. Odds life ! must... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 páginas
...darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March. EPITAPH FOB HIMSELF. Nobles and Heralds by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew 1'rior, The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher? Mr. Singer remarked in " Notes... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 páginas
...full fine, A fair cloth they 'gan for to spread ; But wanting money I might not be pped. AN EPITAPH. 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 ? — M. Prior. TO A BUTTERFLY. Child of... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 páginas
...to have occurred to another person, by whom it has been worked out, perhaps rather more gracefully. 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 ! It is well known how great are the resources... | |
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