 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...630. 6 Compare Young. Page 266. MANNERS. — WOLFE. — POKTEUS. 347 LORD JOHN MANNERS. 1721-1770. Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. England's Trust. Part Hi. Line 227. JAMES WOLFE. 1726-1759. There is such a choice of difficulties... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - American literature - 1884 - 312 pages
...Persons of Quality, 1736. (A satire for which the publisher was arrested.) which occurs the couplet Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, 'But leave us still our old nobility.) English Ballads, and other Poems, 1850. Importance of Literature to Men of Business, 1852. Plea for... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - Nobility - 1884 - 132 pages
...in memory of the chief actors that Lord John Manners devoutly wrote his ever memorable lines : — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. No sooner did Henry II. ascend the throne than he set himself determinedly to demolish the numerous... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 510 pages
...to blandly remark that the Lord John Manners who died in 1770 was the author of the famous couplet : Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning, die, But leave us still our old nobility. This queer anachronism (for it would seem that any one who knew the lines would also know that they... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...vain men pursue vanity ; leave them to their own methods, Thomas à Л>ш//*. LET WEALTH [ 2« 1 LIARS / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; / For faith, that, panting for a happie LordJ. Manners. Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1894 - 382 pages
...phlegmatical repulsiveness of manners, who in admiration of his class, once exclaimed, with idiotic fatuity: "Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die But leave us still our old nobility." The loss of Mr. Peyton's letter cannot be too much regretted. If reviewed the whole history of the... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. n. SIB JAMES MACKINTOSH — Vindicve Gallicx. Sec. I. d pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred o. LOBD JOHN MANNEBS — England's Trust. Pt. III. L. 227. To make a bank, was a great plot of state... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...our remembrance with An heaviness that's gone." SHAKESPEARE. The Tempest (Prospero), Act V., Sc. I. " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." LORD JOHN MANNERS. England's Trust, Pt. III., line 227. " Let your discretion be your tutor." SHAKESPEARE.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - English literature - 1898 - 398 pages
...never been surpassed. I suppose there has seldom been a couplet so often or so deservedly quoted as : " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old nobility." 266 Far better than any parody is this chivalric aspiration from the same poem : " Oh ! would some... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - English literature - 1898 - 410 pages
...never been surpassed. I suppose there has seldom been a couplet so often or so deservedly quoted as : " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." 266 Far better than any parody is this chivalric aspiration from the same poem : " Oh ! would some... | |
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Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old Nobility. 
