Chapter 25 of this Dickens novel has the line "He'd make a lovely corpse"
[DOC] [TLE] Martin Chuzzlewit - Wikiquote [PAR] Martin Chuzzlewit (18431844) is a novel by Charles Dickens, the main theme of 
which is ... Chapter I. Firstly, that it may be safely asserted, and yet without 
implying any direct ...