 | 1888 - 508 pages
...blandly remark that the Lord John Manners who died in 1770 was the author of the famous couplet : Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning, die, But leave us still our old nobility. This queer anachronism (for it would seem that any one who knew the lines would also know that they... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...men pursue vanity ; leave them to their own methods, Thomas à Л>ш//*. LET WEALTH [ 2« 1 LIARS Let r patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; / For faith, that, panting for a happie LordJ. Manners. Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. n. SIB JAMES MACKINTOSH — Vindicve Gallicx. Sec. I. Let unds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred o. LOBD JOHN MANNEBS — England's Trust. Pt. III. L. 227. To make a bank, was a great plot of state... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...remembrance with An heaviness that's gone." SHAKESPEARE. The Tempest (Prospero), Act V., Sc. I. " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." LORD JOHN MANNERS. England's Trust, Pt. III., line 227. " Let your discretion be your tutor." SHAKESPEARE.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 398 pages
...been surpassed. I suppose there has seldom been a couplet so often or so deservedly quoted as : " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old nobility." 266 Far better than any parody is this chivalric aspiration from the same poem : " Oh ! would some... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1898 - 258 pages
...offices of state, and in his youth sought poetic renown, nipped in the bud by one unlucky couplet — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old Nobility ! It is only fair to say that the context a little modifies this startling aspiration ; also that if... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 410 pages
...been surpassed. I suppose there has seldom been a couplet so often or so deservedly quoted as : " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." 266 Far better than any parody is this chivalric aspiration from the same poem : " Oh ! would some... | |
 | Henry G. Swift - 1900 - 326 pages
...derision and scorn—even from critics of his own party. His disgraceful lines, which ran— " Let Arts and Commerce, Laws and Learning, die, But leave us still our old Nobility I "— of which he was so distinguished an ornament—were as much a perpetration on decency and the... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1901 - 562 pages
...forud for dem, havde ikke formaaet at slide paa en Livskraft som hans. Han har sikkert *) Let \vealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility! altid følt sig til Mode som havde han en langt større Grundsum af Ungdomskraft end Gennemsnittet.... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1902 - 556 pages
...House of Commons. He once quoted in a spirit of banter and ridicule the well-known couplet, — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility — which appeared in the boyish volume of poems, ENGLAND'S TRUST, published by Lord John Manners when... | |
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Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old Nobility. 
