 | Jane H. Jamieson - 1885 - Liczba stron: 452
...' I daresay Sir John could count as far back as anybody, — and ourselves too, for that matter. " The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ? " I don't think it such an overwhelming honour to .have " crept through scoundrels since the flood... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1907 - Liczba stron: 496
...said to be done by himself, was to be put upon it, viz. Nobles and Poets, by your Leave, 10 Here lye the Bones of Matthew Prior, The Son of ADAM and of EVE : Let Bourbon or Nassaw go higher. Among his Poems we find the following Epitaph, with this Title to... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - Liczba stron: 328
...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 ? " Schumann, the German musical composer, author of " Paradise and the Peri," in a fit... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - Liczba stron: 876
...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 bis wife, in Long Acre. Those who have not read his late Excellency's poems should... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - Liczba stron: 396
...shall die ; His wife, that he may live.' ' 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 The Remedy Worse than the Disease. ' I sent for Radcliff; was so ill That other doctors... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - Liczba stron: 914
...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 ? " Bat, in tl.is case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. and his wife,... | |
 | 1888 - Liczba stron: 438
...with a 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 ?" Among his posthumous verses, there is also a poem headed " For my own Monument," which,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - Liczba stron: 554
...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. king of verse,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - Liczba stron: 498
...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 1 " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke. had deprived... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1891 - Liczba stron: 350
...the famous lines : — ' Nobles and Heralds, by your leave Here lies what once was Matthew Prior : A son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher?' When Matthew Prior was English minister at the court of Louis XIV. the bust here seen was sculptured... | |
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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. 
