 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...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.... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 500 pages
...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 have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...were good and greatSlO 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. VARIATION. After ver. 172, in the MS. Say, what rewards this idle world imparts, Or fit for... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...were good and great. 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 fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...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 (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Quaker actors - 1814 - 544 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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.... | |
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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... 
