| English epigrams - 1878 - 458 pages
...Anon. 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... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Registry Department - Boston (Mass.) - 1880 - 206 pages
...matter of ancestry I have ever been of the opinion expressed by Matthew Prior: — Heralds and nobles, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve; Let Bourbon and Nassau go higher. The poor boy who replied to the inquiries of the police judge, that... | |
| William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...famous 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... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...that 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... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...Burnet ever wrote. DoDSLEY. HIS OWN 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 ? From SOLOMON. Book II. Abra was ready ere I called her name, And when I called another,... | |
| Evan Daniel - English language - 1881 - 420 pages
...f. The 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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...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 ? " and his wife, in Long Acre. Those who have not read his late Excellency's poems should... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...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 ? " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. and his wife,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...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 ? )f wants, he says, is her Majesty's picture ; without that he can't be happy. " Thee,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...this sort when he wrote his Epitaph : — " Xobles 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. May future bards... | |
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