 | Timothy Alden - Epitaphs - 1814 - 298 pages
...immortality, 21 December, 1778, in the 65 year of his age. Of comfort no man speak ! Let's talk of graves, and worms, and epitaphs, Make dust our paper, and, with rainy eyes, Write sorrow in the bosom of the earth. Note. — The author of this collection makes the following statement by... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...themselves! On the Vanity of Power, and Misery of Kingi. No matter where ; of comfort no man speak; Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper, and wilh rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors, and talk of wills;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...is the duke my father, with his power? K. Richard. No matter where: of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow in the bosom of the earth! Let's chuse executors, and talk of wiljs : And yet not so—for what can... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...national feeling. It seemed as if all, in the words of our Avonian Bard, were ready to exclaim, let us Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes, Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth!" Trlle, indeed, is it, that never, even in his- U, toric recollection, can we fix upon any antecedent... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...the duke, my father, with his power? K. Richard. No matter where : of comfort no man apeak : Let V talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust our paper, and with r^iny eyes Write sorrow in the bosom of the earth ! Let's chuse executors, and talk of wills : And... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...Where is the duke my father with his power? ' K. Rich. No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let 's choose executors, and talk of wills ; And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...Where is the duke my father with his power ? K. Rich. No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust...Let's choose executors, and talk of wills: And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, or lives, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...Where is the duke my father with his power ? K. Rich. No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; Make dust...choose executors, and talk of wills : And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...Bagot ? What is become of Busby ? where is Green ? — No matter where ; of comfort no man speak, Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...choose executors, and talk of wills ; And yet not so for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and all... | |
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Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren... 
