 | 680 Seiten
...upon him was only too just : Here lie« Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather ; Had it been his brother, Still better...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said. t Some traditions of Fred still linger about Epsom. An obelisk (the flint of which went to face St.... | |
 | 1822 - 496 Seiten
...OF FREDERICK, PRINCE OB WALES. Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather : Had it been his brother, Still better...alive and is dead, — There's no more to be said. Many of the anecdotes scattered over the epitome of Parliamentary debates, and the history of political... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 Seiten
...FREDERIC, LATE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead. Had it been his Father, I had much rather; Had it been his Brother, Still better...alive and is dead, — There's no more to be said. IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CHURCH, Upon a rudely-sculptured monumeot, near the tomb of Shaktpeare. Hie... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 Seiten
...Fred, Who was alive as is dead ; Had it been his father, 1 had much rather ; Had it been his broiher, Still better than another ; Had it been his sister,...was alive and is dead, There's no more to be said. Georgeon Era. ,. -Adelphi-Ривг««- before Seven.— Surrey-Sadler's Welb-J/aí/pwí Stx. Cobwg-^erífr... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 Seiten
...Had it been his brother, Still better than another ; Had it been his sister, No one would have miss'd her ; Had it been the whole generation, Still better...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said !" Walpole says, his chief passion was women ; and that, like the taste of his family, beauty did not... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 Seiten
...the royal family one and all : Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead : Had it been his father, I had much rather ; Had it been his brother, Still better...alive and is dead — There's no more to be said. Terse and expressive, this elegy, without respect of persons. Racy enough, whatever its offences against... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 Seiten
...upon him was only too just : Here lies Fred, V, h« was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather ; Had it been his brother, Still better...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said. Some traditions of Fred still linger about Epsom. An obelisk (the flint of which went to face St. Martin's... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 Seiten
...preserved in Walpole's Memoires/ Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead ; Had it been his father I had much rather; Had it been his brother,* Still better...was alive and is dead, There's no more to be said. * William, Duke of Cumberland, of Culloden memory, and therefore particularly obnoxious to the Jacobites,... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 488 Seiten
...family were held by the people. " Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather ; Had it been his brother, Still better...alive and is dead, There's no more to be said." The death of the son of Sophia Dorothea was as pudden as that of his father. He was in his seventy-eighth... | |
 | 1851 - 608 Seiten
...been his sister, No one would have missed her; Had it been the whole generation, Still better for tbe nation ; But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There is no more to be said." In speaking of William, Duke of Cumberland, the heroofFontenoy and Culloden,... | |
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Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation.... 
