 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.  Select epigrams - 第19页作者：Select epigrams - 1797全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 318 页
...; Then let me hear thee fmiling fay, Thou, my dear, wert born to-day. EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE. JN OBLES and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was...The fon of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Naffau claim higher } * Mrs. Anne Durham. FOR FOR MY OWN MONUMENT, I. Ai S doftors give phyfick by way of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1028 页
...thy face ; Then let me hear thec fmiluig fay, Thou, my dear, wcrt born to-day. EPITAPH, extempore. NOBLES and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what...Prior ; The fon of Adam and of Eve, Can Bourbon or Naflau claim higher ? For my own TOMBITONE. *T"*O me 'twas given to die : to thec 'tis given 1 To live... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 322 页
...Then let me hear thee fmiling fay, Thou, my dear, wert born to-day. EPITAPH. EX -TE *1 f, OR E. OBLES and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior;; The fon of Adam and of Eve, fan Bourbon or Naflau claim higher ? • * Mrs. Anne Durham. JS. 3 *P* UPID, MBUSH, I T oft" to many... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 326 页
...hear thee fmiling fay, Thou, my dear, wert born to-day. * Mrs.. Anne Durham. EPITAPH, EXTEMPORE. OBLES and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was...Prior, The fon of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Naflau claim higher ? FOR MY OWN "T'O MB STONE. '"PO me 'twas given to die : to thee 'tis given ' To... | |
 | 1795 - 846 页
...from thy face ; Then let me hear thec fmiling fay, Thou, my dear, wert bom to-day. EPITAPH, EXTEMPORE. NOBLES and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what...Prior, The fon of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nafl'au claim higher ? FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE. To me 'twas given to die : to thee 'tis given To live... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1802 - 504 页
...wifh'd, nor car'd, nor laugh'd, nor cry'd ; And fo they liv'd, and fo they dy'd. EPITAPH EXTEMPORE. NOBLES and Heralds, by your leave, Here lies what...was Matthew Prior, The fon of Adam and of Eve ; Can Stuart or Naflau claim higher. FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE. TO me 'twas gir'n to die ; to thee 'tis given... | |
 | 1803 - 748 页
...September, 1587, records the -execution U " of *' Nobles and Commons, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior, The fon of Adam and of Eve. Can Bourbon or Naflau- go higher :" re faid to have been taken from a Scotch epitaph in the church-yard of Dundee.... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 472 页
...de ma tête ? » / Il mourut à cinquante-sept ans, et, comme La Fontaine , il fit son épitaphe : Nobles and heralds, by your leave Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, * * Nobles , généalogistes , avec votre permission , ci-gît qui fut autrefois Mathieu Prior, 'The... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 472 页
...» II mourut à cinquante-sept ans, et, comme La Fontaine , il fit son épitaphe : • • » . • Nobles and heralds, by your leave Here lies what once was Matthew Prier , * * Nobles , généalogistes , avec votre permission » ci-gît qui fut autrefois Mathieu Prior... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 页
...me hear thee smiling say, " Thou, my dear, wcrt born to dcy." EPITAPH. i. r Ml.,!:,. N. . ,• ; . 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 OW* TOMBSTONE. To me 'twas given... | |
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