 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 - 1856 - 352 pagina’s
...Lucrece : 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... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1856 - 408 pagina’s
...earl. It cannot, therefore, with any propriety, be thrown in the face of the Snubs, that • " Their ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood." • But this Lawyer "Snub, whose first name was William, had not the faculty or the talents to bring... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 770 pagina’s
...force to the scorn expressed by the Poet, for a pride in mere conventional nobility of descent : " 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... | |
 | Humphry William Freeland - 1857 - 256 pagina’s
...Lucrece : 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pagina’s
...drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. 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 Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 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... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 pagina’s
...Creator had given him. Were their characters anything to be proud of? Says the poet, " Go! if j•our 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: But by your fathers'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pagina’s
...Lucrece : 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pagina’s
...looking through that granary of honors, 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. 11 My father was of the north of Scotland, the son... | |
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