 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pagina’s
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Luorece : Bat by your father's worth, if your's you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. 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... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pagina’s
...mortification than glory : 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. III. The Poet in the next place [from 1. 206 to 227] unmasks the false pretences of GREATNESS,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pagina’s
...mortification than glory : 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. III. The Poet in the next place [from 1. 206 to 227] unmasks the false pretences of GREATNESS,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pagina’s
...good and great. 210 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 : 2IJ Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS.... | |
 | James Fennell - 1814 - 544 pagina’s
...and steal. Pope says: " 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." Of the antiquity, and the vices or virtues of my ancestors, I can say, because I know, but... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pagina’s
...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 sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pagina’s
...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 sots, or slaves, .or cowards ? 315 Alas I not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
 | 1816 - 778 pagina’s
...record a liil of fucii of them as are legitimated by the lenuincnt of-the poet of Twickenham : — " But by your father's worth if your's you rate, " Count me thofe only who were vaod And great" (IV.) ERSKINE, EMINENT PERSONS OF THE NAME OF. (i.) " Failing over llightiy the celebrated... | |
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 pagina’s
...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 all the... 
