 | 1822 - 496 pàgines
...speak,and move, That thus has set my sotil on fire. ELEGY ON THE DEATH 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 than another ; Had it been his... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pàgines
...time, This rose in her prime Shall rise up again by God's grace. ON 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 than another ; Had it been his... | |
 | 1832 - 616 pàgines
...after his decease, the following proposed epitaph for his monument was anonymously circulated: — Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, 1 hnd much rather : Had it been hiï brother, Still better than another ; Had it been hie... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pàgines
...March, 1751. Soon after his decease, the following anonymous lines were proposed for his epitaph : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 pàgines
...the Second, and is pretty impartial on the whole in its estimate of 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 than another ; Had it been his... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pàgines
...indulged in frequent unfeeling and scurrilous personalities on every branch of the reigning family : 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pàgines
...indulged in frequent unfeeling and scurrilous personalities on every branch of the reigning family : 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 488 pàgines
...expressions probably originated the following ballad, which was much in vogue at the period : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 pàgines
...Diary, and from an epitaph which had great currency at the time, and is 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 than another ; Had it been his... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 494 pàgines
...the degree of respect in which the Prince and other members of his iamily 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 than another ; Had it been his... | |
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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.... 
