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Richard Harris Barham
12 quotes
“Next morning I was up betimes — I sent the Crier round, All with his bell and gold-laced hat, to say I'd give a pound To find that little vulgar Boy, who'd gone and used me so; But when the Crier cried, "O Yes!" the people cried, "O No!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though I 've always consider'd Sir Christopher Wren, As an architect, one of the greatest of men; And, — talking of Epitaphs, — much I admire his "Circumspice, si Monumentum requiris;" Which an erudite Verger translated to me, " If you ask for his Monument, Sir-come-spy-see!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was to be done? — 'twas perfectly plain That they could not well hang the man over again: — What was to be done? — The man was dead! — Nought could be done — nought could be said; So — my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's a corpse in the case with a sad swell'd face, And a 'Crowner's Quest' is a queer sort of thing!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant (The World's Classics, 1901): Here’s a corpse in the case with a sad swell’d face, / And a Medical Crowner’s a queer sort of thing!
“Now haste ye, my handmaidens, haste and see How he sits there and glow'rs with his head on his knee!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cf. H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1885) ch. 16
“But wherever they live, or whenever they die, They'll never get quit of young Hamilton Tighe.”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The jackdaw sat on the Cardinal’s chair! Bishop and abbot and prior were there; Many a monk, and many a friar, Many a knight, and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,— In sooth, a goodly company; And they serv’d the Lord Primate on bended knee.”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the priests, with awe, As such freaks they saw, Said, “The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And six little Singing-boys,—dear little souls! In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles, Came in order due, Two by two, Marching that grand refectory through.”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His eye so dim, So wasted each limb, That, heedless of grammar, they all cried, “! That’s the scamp that has done this scandalous thing! That’s the thief that has got my Lord Cardinal’s Ring!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A servant's too often a negligent elf; If it's business of consequence, !”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Cardinal rose with a dignified look, He call’d for his candle, his bell, and his book: In holy anger, and pious grief, He solemnly curs’d that rascally thief! He curs’d him at board, he curs’d him in bed, From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head! He curs’d him in sleeping, that every night He should dream of the devil, and wake in a fright; He curs’d him in eating, he curs’d him in drinking, He curs’d him in coughing, in sneezing, in winking; He curs’d him in sitting, in standing, in lying; He curs’d him in walking, in riding, in flying; He curs’d him in living, he curs’d him in dying! Never was heard such a terrible curse! But what gave rise To no little surprise, Nobody seem’d one penny the worse!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source