 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pages
...front of March. EPITAPH FOR 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 ? Mr. Singer remarked in " Notes and Queries," 1st SI 482: " Prior's epitaph on himself has its prototype... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 pages
...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 and Queries," 1st 8. 1. 482 : " Prior's epituph on himself has its prototype... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...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 one swear to the truth of a song ? A Better Aniwer.... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 pages
...DCXXXVII. AN EPITAPH FOR 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 (1664-1721). [This, says Singer, " has its prototype in one long previously written... | |
 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 pages
...epitaph on himself — Pope. 11 " 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." But he does not often descend to so much levity as this, his wing is generally in a higher... | |
 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 pages
...epitaph on himself — Pope. 11 " 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." But he does not often descend to so much levity as this, his wing is generally in a higher... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...epitaph which he wrote for 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 ? Of Prior's longer pieces we cannot stop to give examples, and we can only refer to the ' Female Phaeton,'... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...lightly covers her. Herrick, Hesp. 98. Nobles aud heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? Prior, Ep. on Himself. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...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 ? " Epitaph on I-fimsclf. Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song ? A Better Answer. That... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 pages
...Kembles were remarkable actors. g. 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 ? — Prior. b. I think there be six Kichmonds in the field. — Sbaltsjtere. i. Perhaps it may turn... | |
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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. 
