 Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack ; He led such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back.  All the Year Round - Stran 1571864Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1874 - 968 strani
...Goldsmith was a member, and where he wrote the memorable epitaph on a bookseller's hack, as follows : — " Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack, He had led such a life upon earth, X don't think he'll wish to come back." I have already referred to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 200 strani
...ne'er see your graces, As I hope to be saved ! without thinking on asses." EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.* HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. ' This gentleman was educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; hut having wasted his patrimony, he enlisted... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1870 - 532 strani
...vinegar — from the Saturday; and in thinking of him one recalls Goldsmith's lines on Ned Purdon: — " Here lies poor Ned Purdon (from misery freed), Who long was a bookseller's hack ; He led such ad — nable life in this world, That I don't think he'll wish to come back." " THE SUPERIOR ANIMAL... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 strani
...wrote his epitaph as he came from his chambers in the Temple to the " Globe." The lines are : — " Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a booksellers' hack ; He led such a miserable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 500 strani
...man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDOX.1 HERE lies poor Xed Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. 1 From the " Poems and Plays," 1777. Mr. Purdon, " famous for his literary abilities," says the obituary... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 strani
...years after the time we are treating of, on hearing that he had suddenly dropped dead in Smithfield : " Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack ; He led Midi a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back." The memoir and translation,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 strani
...after the time we arc treating of, on hearing that he had suddenly dropped dead in Srnithfield : " Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who...bookseller's hack ; He led such a damnable life in thU world, I don't think he'll, wish to come back." The memoir and translation, though advertised to"... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 714 strani
...Smithfield : " Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long wus a bookseller's hack ; lie O SC[ߘ CS ) a } R NW M )b kU-" v e = Z Ҏ6gғ r + The memoir and translation, though advertised to form a volume, were not published together ; but appeared... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1882 - 398 strani
...whose epitaph Goldsmith wrote on his way from his chambers in the Temple to this tavern. It runs thus : Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack ; He led snch a miserable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. Other frequenters of the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 strani
...have condescended to adopt this (not very excellent) epigram, in the lines printed in his works. — Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who...this world — I don't think he'll wish to come back. t The Kit-cat Club, which was the point of convivial union among the friends of the Hanoverian succession,... | |
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