 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
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pagina’s
...: But by your father's 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...Lucrèce : But by your fathers' 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... | |
 | Esaias Tegnér - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...Lncrece: But by your fathers' 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... | |
 | Esaias Tegnér - 1839 - 420 pagina’s
...by your fathers' worth if yours yon rate , Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if yoar ancient, but ignoble, blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is yonng; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. "What can ennoble... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 606 pagina’s
...the right of dubbing himself a Milord Anglais, and may strut as a grand seigneur, — ' Although his ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.' Travellers of this description, who glory in the very faults for which they are pitied or ridiculed... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pagina’s
...sold. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pagina’s
...Lucrcce : But, by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count mo those only who were good and great. Go! eath, Sent by some spirit to mortal good. Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let m Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 pagina’s
...reckon his ancestors a century or two back, to constitute his right to boast. What matters it that " His ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood" ? What matters it that his progenitors obtained possession of the very lands he inherits by deeds of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pagina’s
...But by your father's 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... | |
 | 1844 - 524 pagina’s
...concerning whom it is very doubtful whether he ever had any ancestors at all, or, at best, ' whose ancient but ignoble blood has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood,' — shall this fellow, who, a few years ago, was a day-labourer, presume to match himself with the... | |
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