| Harold Workman Williams - 1916 - Liczba stron: 516
...good, We cannot say so much for t'other. 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. Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harold lies — but where's... | |
| Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - Liczba stron: 220
...physician. MATTHEW PRIOR. 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 ? MATTHEW PRIOR. EPITAPH ON TOM D'URFEY HERE lyes the Lyrick, who with Tale and Song,... | |
| 1856 - Liczba stron: 596
...family pretensions. Prior* had said, — ' 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 ?' And against aristocracy, viewed as a merely artificial institution, this way of talking was plausible... | |
| 1865 - Liczba stron: 600
...while his epitaph for himself — ' Gentlemen, here by your leave Lie the bones of Matthew Prior, A sou of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ? ' is but an expert adaptation of a much older one bv John Carnegie, as shown by Mr. Singer in ' Notes and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - Liczba stron: 298
...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. 58.08 most charmingly... | |
| François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 2016 - Liczba stron: 436
...one word more. * Nat Lee. FINIS. EPITAPH Extempore. Heralds, and Statesmen, by your leave, Here lye the Bones of MATTHEW PRIOR ; The Son of ADAM and of EVE, Can BOURBON, or NASSAU, go higher? THE TURTLE and the SPARROW. A TALE. OEHIND an unfrequented Glade, \j Where Eugh and Myrtle mix their... | |
| 1856 - Liczba stron: 408
...determine." . The famous Matthew Prior wrote his own epitaph, and here it is : Nobles and Heralds, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Ere, Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ! And yet it must be granted an amiable and pardonable weakness... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - Liczba stron: 582
...agree with Jean de Meung, that " nus n'est gentis, S'il n'est as vertus ententis ;" or to sneer with Prior, " The son of Adam and of Eve ; — Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?" and if we had contracted a " contempt for scutcheons " more than sufficient to counterbalance any... | |
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