 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...  Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn - Seite 187von William Maginn - 1855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1800 - 322 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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