 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...  Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and Wisdom - Pagina 123door William Swinton - 1864 - 302 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pagina’s
...Lucrece : But by your father's 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 have been "fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagina’s
...: But, by your father's worth if yours you rate. Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! to rave, [w«w. While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed The stars, with deep Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pagina’s
...Lucrece: But by yout father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who are good end great, Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood : Go ! and pretend your faoiily is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | 1820 - 784 pagina’s
...have two strings to their bow. III. Pope exposes, in admirable poetry, the idle vanity of those whose ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood. But I never have met this folly more strikingly exemplified than in an account of the family of Rosencrantz,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pagina’s
...Lucrece : But, by your father's 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 have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pagina’s
...But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me those only who were 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pagina’s
...But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me those only who were 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pagina’s
...[strings; But by your fathers' 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 have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pagina’s
...Lucrece : But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were gooS 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 yonr fathers hare been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pagina’s
...But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were 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... | |
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