 | 1800 - 322 pagine
...Lucrece: Eut 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... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagine
...Lucrece: 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... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pagine
...your father's worth if yours you rate, « Count me those only who were good and great. 2 1 0 «' 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pagine
...: Bat by your fathers' worth if your's yon 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 eunoble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pagine
...Lucrece : 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... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 pagine
...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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 pagine
...drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pagine
...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 scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. VARIATION. After... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pagine
...: Bat 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... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 pagine
...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 scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. III. The Poet in... | |
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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 all the... 
