 | 626 pages
...place one of a more satirical than a ludicrous turn, written by Prior on himself: " Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve, Let Bourbon or Nassau go higher." If there be any who are not acquainted with Byron's epitaph on a... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...just Smell sweet, and blossom in lho silent dust. SELF-WRITTEN. MATTHEW PRIOR'S. Painters and heralds, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve : — Let Bourbon or Nassan go higher ! It is said (and the statement appears highly probable) that... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 358 pages
...dear, wert born to-day. 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 ? FOR MY OWN MONUMENT. As doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive, and in... | |
 | 1861 - 578 pages
...over the ambassadorpoet's proposed epitaph : "Ladies and gentles, by your leave, Here lies the body of Matthew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?" No : I have not any wish to attempt sarcasm either one way or the other — either about " tenth... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 pages
...Here is 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?" MATTHEW PRIOR . 533 In his version of the old story of Danae, entitled "The Padlock,"... | |
 | George Augustus H.F. Sala - 1862 - 332 pages
...the ambassador - poet's proposed epitaph : " Ladies and gentles, by your leave, Here lies the body of Matthew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ? " No : I have not any wish to attempt sarcasm either one way or the other — either about " tenth... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1862 - 332 pages
...over the ambassador - poet's proposed epitaph: " Ladies and gentles, by your leave, Here lies the body of Matthew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ?" No: I have not any wish to attempt sarcasm either one way or the other—either about " tenth transmitters... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 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. would go off and... | |
 | Anonymous - 1865 - 602 pages
...while his epitaph for- himself — ' Gentlemen, here by your leave Lie the bones of Matthew Prior, A son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher ? ' is but an expert adaptation of a much older one by John Carnegie, as shown by Mr. Singer in ' Notes and... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 pages
...wrote. 6 Mock Epitaph on Himself. (3«) 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 ? 7 Phillps Age. How old may Phillis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages... | |
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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. 
