Category: Humour
TO WILLIAM, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., ETC., ETC., THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS GRACE'S KIND PERMISSION, AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR ENCOURAGEMENT AND FAVOURS BESTOWED WHEN THEY WERE MOST NEEDED. W. A.
Respecting the next example, our friend, Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., wrote to the _Times_ as follows: "Close to the south-western corner of the parish churchyard of Hampstead ther...
7. Part 7The multitude of great events which took place during the lifetime of this man are truly wonderful and astonishing. He lived under the rule of nine sovereigns of England--Henry...
5. Part 5"I saw this woman to-day in her bed, to which she is confined from having lost the use of her limbs. She has even now, old and withered as she is, a characteristic countenance,...
8. Part 8The regicide was a son of Sir Henry Marten, a favourite of the first James, and by him appointed Principal Judge of the Admiralty and Dean of Arches. Young Henry was himself a p...
6. Part 6Far from his native land, beneath this stone, Lies JOHN MACBETH, in prime of manhood gone; A kinder husband never yet did breathe, A firmer friend ne'er trod on Albyn's heath; H...
2. Part 2Turn, gentle stranger, and this urn revere, O'er which Hibernia saddens with a tear. Here sleeps George Faulkner, printer, once so dear To humorous Swift, and Chesterfield's gay...
1. Part 1TO WILLIAM, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., ETC., ETC., THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS GRACE'S KIND PERMISSION, AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR ENCOURAGEMENT AND FAVOURS BESTO...
4. Part 4Some singular epitaphs are to be found over the remains of men who either manufactured, dispensed, or loved the social glass. In the churchyard of Newhaven, the Sussex, followin...
9. Part 9Not Siloam's ruinous tower the victims slew, Because above the many sinn'd the few, Nor here the fated lightning wreaked its rage By vengeance sent for crimes matur'd by age. Fo...
10. Part 10Norfolk, Horatio Edward. Gleanings in Graveyards: a Collection of Curious Epitaphs. London: J. R. Smith, 1861, 12mo., 172 pp.; Second edition, 1861, 12mo., 172 pp.; Third editio...
11. Part 11Yorkshire, 111, 145; Beverley, 98, 116; Bolton, 112; Bowes, 145; Darlington, 13; Ecclesfield, 23; Foulby, 36; Hampsthwaite, 122; Harrogate, 109-111; Hartwith Chapel, 11; Hessle,...