 | Noah Webster - 1835 - 270 pagina’s
...leather or prunella. 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 Howards.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pagina’s
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : I But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, 209 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 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 1 Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...good and great. 210 Go! if your ancient, hut ignohle hlood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have heen fools so long. What can ennohle sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the hlood of all... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pagina’s
...and great Go ! if your ancient, but ignob'e blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flimd strip them for the fig hi . Their folded sheets dismiss the useless air : ' so long. What can ennoble sotfi, or slaves, or cowards ! Alas! not all the blood of all the Howard*.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pagina’s
...leather or prunella. 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 Howards.... | |
 | Caroline M. Churchill - 1877 - 268 pagina’s
...thought I, quoting Pope: " Go, if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through ninnies ever since the flood. Go, and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long." Many celebrities and what might be termed " characters " corne to this valley every season.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pagina’s
...In quiet flow from Lucreec to Lucrece ; But by your fathers' worth if yours 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... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pagina’s
...instead of their discharge. Young. But by your fathers' work if yours you rate, Count me those only that boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1878 - 606 pagina’s
...the astonishing antiquity of the institution 1 Would not the advice of Pope apply in this case ? " Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long." If the antiquity of a sect or society proved its utility, or that it was founded in correct... | |
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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... 
