 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 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 - 1824 - 422 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...Lucrece : But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! low'd thus intrude, Where heaven and you reside. " But let a maid thy pity share, Who Go! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pagina’s
...Lucrece: But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great 28 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 - 1825 - 536 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 I and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagina’s
...Lucrece : But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those ouly 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 - 1826 - 840 pagina’s
...: But, l>y your father's worth if yours yon itte, Count me those only who were good and great Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the FW, Go ! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fooh so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pagina’s
...looking through that granary of honours, I there found almost every name in the kingdom; but for me, ' My ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.' Gules, Purpure, Argent, &c. quite disowned me. " My father was of the north of Scotland, the son of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 pagina’s
...looking through that granary of honors, I there found almost every name in the kingdom; but forme, -My ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood. Gulcs, Purpure, Argent, &c. quite disowned me. "My father wan of the north of Scotland, the son of... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pagina’s
...absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.— Addison. CCCCVI. <io! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long 1 . Go! and pretend your family is young, What can ennoble... | |
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