 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...— A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing ! JULIA PAEDOE (1816-1862): The Captive Greet Girl. Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. LOED JOHN MANNEES (1818 ): England't Trutt. Part Hi. Llnc 227. Why thus longing, thus forever sighing... | |
 | Karl Bleibtreu - 1904 - 360 pages
...aristokratischen Jung-England in die Arme, das in den unsterblichen Versen von Lord Mannets weiterlebt: „Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, but leave us still our old Nobility." (Mag Handel, Wandel, Bildung untergehn, bleibt nur das Adelsregiment bestehn.) Mit unfreiwilliger Naivetät... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pages
...build, not boast, a generous race ; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. The Bastard. E. SAVAGE. Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. England's Trust, Pt. III. LORD j. MANNERS. Whoe'er amidst the sous Of reason, valor, liberty, and virtue.... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...Mother's Picture, lines 58, 59 2The Niobe of isles, J, B, O'REILLY, My Native Land Nobility, — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility, — LORD JOHN MANNERS, England's Trust, III, lines 227, 228 Noble, — Noble thought produces Noble... | |
 | Charles Eyre Pascoe - 1908 - 570 pages
...the pen, and wrote " England's Trust, and other Poems." And thus to the world wrote he : — u Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." Another equally amiable gentleman, member of Parliament, further wrote in those days, such timely suggestions... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - 1908 - 510 pages
...who, according to the witticism of Talleyrand, " had learned nothing and had forgotten nothing." " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." These were the men who were advising the king. Louis was so timid and suspicious by nature that he... | |
 | Harry Graham - 1910 - 416 pages
...Canning," p. 21. it, however, and when he ridiculed Lord John Manners for the youthful couplet — " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility ! " the author justly retorted that he would far sooner be the foolish young man who wrote those lines than... | |
 | Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy Earl of Cranbrook - 1910 - 444 pages
...telegrams, and to give notice of asking for money last night, which Northcote did. Nothing 1 ' Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.' had come out about resignations, or the cause of them — the movement of the fleet ; still there was... | |
 | Harry Graham - 1913 - 342 pages
...fated long to survive the torrent of ridicule let loose by Lord John Manners' famous lines : " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility !" The faith of the Young England party was one which must have appealed particularly to men of a romantic... | |
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Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old Nobility. 
