Chapter 25 of this Dickens novel has the line "He'd make a lovely corpse"
Scene 2, Line 12 .... in _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006], 
claims [DOC] [TLE] --Charles Dickens--Martin Chuzzlewit--CHAPTER XXV [PAR] So round and chubby were their fair proportions, that they might have been the .... 
playing at berryins down in the shop, and follerin' the order-book to its long .... as I 
know'd some one in the undertaking, line, and yet give no offence to you, sir?