 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...giv'st him a smile or a tear, He cares not — yet prithee, be kind to his fame. EPITAPH EXTEMPORE. Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what...was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve; Can Stuart or Nassau claim higher. JOHN POMFRET, of whom very little is known, was the son of a clergyman,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 páginas
...that it will hear repetition : — Nobles and Heralds, by your leave, Here lio the bones of 5lallhew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher 1 Written in the same spirit, but superior in tone and quality, is the following epitaph "on a poor,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...the style and dignity of ambassador." He had been thinking of slights of this sort when he wrote his Epitaph : — " Nobles and heralds by your leave,...The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ?" But, in this ease, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. Higher to raise... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...the style and dignity of embassador." He had been thinking of slights of this sort when he wrote his Epitaph : — • " Nobles and heralds by your leave,...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. got any more than... | |
 | 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...The son of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? FOR MY OWN MONUMENT. As doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive, and in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...-the style and dignity of ambassador." He had beer, thinking of slights of this sort wncn he wrote his Epitaph : — " Nobles and heralds by your leave,...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. Higher to raise... | |
 | 1854 - 778 páginas
...account for 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...The son of Adam and of Eve ; , Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? "3 Handwriting (Vol. viii., p. 639.). — In your concluding Number of last year, EB... | |
 | 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...The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?" But, in this case, the old pri-judico got the better of the old joke. Higher to raise... | |
 | 1855 - 388 páginas
...Prior wrote his own epitaph, and here it is : Nobles and Heralds, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher 1 And yet it must be granted an amiable and pardonable weakness in a man, to conduct his friend through... | |
 | 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...Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?' And against aristocracy, viewed as a merely artificial institution, this way of talking was plausible... | |
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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. 
