 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pàgines
...But But by your fathers' worth if your's yon rate, Count me those only who were good and great. 210 Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept...long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards : 2IJ Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies... | |
 | James Fennell - 1814 - 544 pàgines
...secured, where moth and rust corrupt not, and where thieves do not break through and steal. Pope says: " Go, if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through...young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long." Of the antiquity, and the vices or virtues of my ancestors, I can say, because I know, but little.... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pàgines
...What differ more (you say) than crown and cowl ?'' I'll tell you, friend ; a wise man and a fool. ^ Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. "What can enoble sols, or knaves, or cowards ? r\las ! not all the blood of all the H»wardi. POP*. LESSON XI.... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pàgines
...Lncrece < But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. 810 Go, if your ancient, but ignoble, blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go 1 and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers .have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 pàgines
...be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;" The rest is all but leather or prunella. Go ! if your ancient,, but ignoble blood, Has crept through scoundrels ever since Ac flood; Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your father* have been, fools so long. What... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pàgines
...Lucrece : Rut by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and gn Go i if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the u. Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | 1816 - 762 pàgines
...mungrel. Hudibras. Scoundrels as thefe wretched Ombites be, Canopus they fucceed in luxury. Tatc. > Go, if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever fince the flood, Go, and pretend your family is young. Pope, (i.) * To SCOUR, va ifturer, Danifh ;... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 746 pàgines
...mungrel. HttJibras. Scoundrels as thefe wretched Ombites be, Canopus they fuccecd in luxury. Tale. Go, if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever fince the flood, Go, and pretend your family is young. Pope. (i.) * To SCOUR, va \jkurer, Danifh ;... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pàgines
...have two strings to their bow. III. Pope exposes, in admirable poetry, the idle vanity of those whose ancient, but ignoble blood. Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood. But I never have met this folly more strikingly exemplified than in an account of the family of llosencrantz,... | |
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 pàgines
...fellow; The re&t is all but leather or prunella. Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood, Has crept thro' scoundrels ever since the flood;' Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fatliers Have beefr fbbls so long. , What can ennoble sots, or 1 slaves, or cowards I Alas ! not all... | |
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Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of... 
