 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...by your father's worth if yours you rate, ' Count me those only who were good r.nd great. 210 ' Go ; if your ancient, but ignoble blood, ' Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, ' Go ! a:ul pretend your family is young; ' Now own your fathers have been fools so long. ' What can ennoble... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...your antient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend vour s around. Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns r From s Vi hat can ennoltlc sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Ahs! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only vftio were good and greatSlO Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through...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 searching... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...family, which will always, when reflected on, be rather the subject of mortification than glory : Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble, blood Has crept through...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 GREATN ESS, whereby... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...family, which will always, when reflected on, be rather the subject of mortification than glory : Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble, blood Has crept through...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, whereby... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 through...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 - Quaker actors - 1814 - 544 pages
...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 - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
