 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 500 pages
...born to-day. EPITAPH.1 EXTEMPOKE. 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? FOR MY OWN MONUMENT. 1 As doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive, and in health,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 358 pages
...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 by way of prevention, Mat, alive, and in health, of his... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 pages
...his own epitaph by himself:— " 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?" MATTHEW PRIOR . 533 In his version of the old story of Danae, entitled "The Padlock," we have a good... | |
 | 1861 - 578 pages
...ambassadorpoet's proposed epitaph : "Ladies and gentles, by your leave, Here lies the body of Matthew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?" No : I have not any wish to attempt sarcasm either one way or the other — either about... | |
 | George Augustus H.F. Sala - 1862 - 332 pages
...ambassador - poet's proposed epitaph : " Ladies and gentles, by your leave, Here lies the body of Matthew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ? " No : I have not any wish to attempt sarcasm either one way or the other — either about... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...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 got the better of the old joke. would go off and smoke a pipe... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 pages
...6 Mock Epitaph on Himself. (3«) 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 ? 7 Phillps Age. How old may Phillis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages ? To answer... | |
 | Howard Staunton - 1865 - 622 pages
...composed a far better one — " 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 His brother Robert was Head Master of the School, 1711, and famous for his classical learning.... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...* 6 Mock Epitaph on Himself. (M) 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 ? 7 Phillies Age. How old may Phillis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages ? To answer... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...have been made 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?" This spirited and harmonious verse is thus transmuted in Mr Booth's collection : — " Gentlemen, here,... | |
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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. 
