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"There you go again!" warned the recalcitrant. "If you don't stop eating that mustache you'll have stomach trouble that no Scotch whisky will ever cure. The whole thing is in a nutshell," a sly humor creeping into his eyes. "I am tired of writing ephemeral things. I want to write something that will last." "Write your epitaph, Jack," drawled a deep voice from the reading table.
They are full of amusing anecdotes; but I don't care for fame, as you well know especially posthumous fame. Do as you please then, with my literary remains. Take care of my dog 'tis a good creature; and let me be quietly buried. No bad taste no ostentation no epitaph. I am very glad I die before the d d Revolution that must come; I don't want to take wine with the Member for Holborn Bars.
To lie here among my brethren with such an epitaph, would be higher honor for me than a mausoleum like that of Caecilia Metella." They walked on as before. "How sweet," said Marcellus, "is the death of the Christian! Its horror has fled. To him it is a blessed sleep, and death, instead of awakening terror, is associated with thoughts of rest or of victory."
The following Epitaph on a lady of pleasure, was written by her, Mr. This humorous poet was the son of a considerable Farmer of Shiffnall, in Shropshire, and educated at Newport-school in that county, under the reverend and learned Dr. Edwards, a gentleman who had the honour to qualify many persons of distinction for the university.
This gold is the property of King Charles II., exiled from his country, driven from his palaces, the orphan at once of his father and his throne, and deprived of everything, even of the melancholy happiness of kissing on his knees the stone upon which the hands of his murderers have written that simple epitaph which will eternally cry out for vengeance upon them: 'Here lies Charles I."
Finally, he died, in a florid old age, of an apoplexy, at a corporation feast, and was buried with great honours in the yard of the little Dutch church in Garden-street, where his tombstone may still be seen, with a modest epitaph in Dutch, by his friend Mynheer Justus Benson, an ancient and excellent poet of the province.
Nelson bequeathed to him his Madonna by Correggio 'as a small testimony of that great value and respect I bear to his lordship; and to his accomplished pen is owing the very beautiful Latin epitaph placed to his friend's memory in St. George the Martyr's, Queen Square.
The whole body, too, swore the Covenant, to which ceremony the epitaph at the head of this chapter seems to refer. A report that Dalzell was approaching drove them from Lanark to Bathgate, where, on the evening of Monday the 26th, the wearied army stopped.
Dunstan's church-yard, the fallen leaves danced and whirled about our feet in the paths. Born in New England, did in London die." "I do not wonder at this," Dr. Johnson said of the epitaph to Boswell. "It would have been strange if born in London he had died in New England."
In the churchyard of one of the parishes of Walsall, Staffordshire, is the following epitaph on a person named Samuel Wilks, who appears, like other persons of his name, to have been a great stickler for the rights of the people: "Reader, if thou art an inhabitant of the Foreign of Walsall, know that the dust beneath thy feet was imprisoned in thy cause, because he refused to incorporate the poor-rates of the Foreign of Walsall and those of the Borough of Walsall.
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