 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...for stones to batter that forgotten grave, but acquiesce in the contemporary epitaph over him : — " Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said." The widow with eight children round 'her, prudently reconciled herself with the King, and won the old... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 632 pages
...died almost immediately. The bitter Jacobite epitaph upon him was only too just: Here lies Fred, \Vho was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I...her ; Had it been the whole generation, Still better tor the nation ; But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.... | |
 | Joseph Whitaker - 1887 - 816 pages
...forth tho bitter Jacobite epitaph : — " Here lies Fred, Who was alive and IB dead; Had it l»een hin father, I had much rather ; Had it been his brother,...missed her ; Had it been the whole generation, Still letter for the nation ; But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive and i« dead, There's no more to be... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 512 pages
...conveys something very like a justification of the Bishop's preference for their exiled kinsman : — Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead ! Had it...father,* I had much rather. Had it been his brother, f Mnch better than another. Had it been his sister,t No one would have miss'd her. Had it been the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 630 pages
...feel death !" and died almost immediately. The bitter Jacobite epitaph upon him was only too just: Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather ; Had it been hie brother, Still better than another ; Had it been his sister, No one would have misscil her ; Had... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 500 pages
...justification of the Bishop's preference for their exiled kinsman : — Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and ia dead ! Had it been his father,* I had much rather. Had it been his brother, t Much better than another. Had it been his sister, J No one would have miss'd her. Had it been the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...for stones to batter that forgotten grave, but acquiesce in the contemporary epitaph over him : — " Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said." The widow with eight children round her, prudently reconciled herself with the King, and won the old... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...was, — he shall be. OX FREDERICK, WtlXCE OP WALES. HERE lies Fred, Who was alive, and is (lead ; Had it been his father I had much rather. Had it been...Still better than another. Had it been his sister, Nobody would have miss'd her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...brother, Still better than another. Had it bcen his sister, No one would have missed her. Had ithcen tho whole generation, Still better for the nation. But...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said." The widow with eight children round her, prudently reconciled herself with the King, and won the old... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 pages
...for stones to batter that forgotten grave, but acquiesce in the contemporary epitaph over him : — "Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it...was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.' The widow with eight children round her prudently reconciled herself with the King, and won the old... | |
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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.... 
