 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...  A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking, in Surrey - Page 59by John Timbs - 1823 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...pretend your family is young; 2ij Nor own , your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots , or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS? Look next on Greatnefs ; fay where Greatnefs lies ? „ Where, but among the Heroes and the Wife?"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1772 - 376 pages
...pretend your family is young ; 215 Nor own , your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS? Look next onGreatnefs; fay where Grcatnefs lies? „Where, but among the Heroes and the Wife?" 220... | |
 | 1795 - 432 pages
...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 Howards* I • . POPE. Etsay en Man, epist. iv. v : ' 'i ..•. .*.. \..'!.* RICH AND POOR. •l. . : • •... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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 Howards. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies. " Where but among the heroes, and the wise ?" Heroes... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...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 Howards. " Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies ? " Where, but among the heroes and the wise."... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pages
...ignoble Wood, Go i 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 Howards : Look next on greatness. Say -where greatness lies ? Where, but among the heroes and the wise. Heroes... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...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 Howards. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies ? " Where, but among the heroes and the wise." Heroes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 Howards. Look next ou greatness ; say where greatness lies? ' Where but among the heroes and the wise ?' Heroes... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...hardly admissible in the »olemn or sub ime stile. Pope has indeed admitted it intu his Essay on Man : " What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards, - Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards." Again : •' To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so •ay, " Mark how they grace Lord Umbr» or Sir Billy."... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pages
...hardly admissible in the jOlcmn or subüme slile. Pope has injeed admitted it into his Essay on Man : " What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards, " Alas ! not all the blood of all the Höwäi di." Again : " To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so »ill* " Mark how they grace Lord Umbra... | |
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