 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...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. king of verse, were left there,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1889 - 326 pages
...derry down. 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?2 [! No second part is known to exist. (See letter of John Morley, Junr., in Prior's Miscellaneous... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pages
...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 1 " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. had deprived him. All that... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 pages
...give below a few of his stanzas: 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 himself Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind; Let all her ways... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1892 - 422 pages
...born to-day. EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE. OBLES 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. doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 pages
...person of so mean an extraction. ' 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 1 This is said to have been 'spoken extempore.' It was more probably — like Goldsmith's ' Ned... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 pages
...when he wrote his Epitaph : — " Nobles and heralds, by yonr leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher 1 " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. had deprived TIÌTD. All that... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...he shall be. p. POPE — Epitaph. Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew ischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon Their no ? q. PRIOR — Epitaph. Extempore. I came at morn — 'twas spring, I smiled, The fields with green... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 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 ?" In his version of the old story of Danae, entitled " The Padlock," we have a good instance of his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...by Louis XIV. Epitaph Extempore. Nobles and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew e or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth l ? loslead of being extempore, this is more probably a recollection like Goldsmith's ' Ned Purdon.'... | |
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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. 
