 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
 | Pliny Miles - 1854 - 360 pages
...since the flood, Gol 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. Mr. Thorlakson gives it in this style. En ae' ySvart hi8 aldna bolS i oterligum runniS straum ]iartil... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1854 - 276 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. Mr. Thotiakson gives it in this style : — En K<: ySvart hiS aldna bolX i 6tdrligum rmmi 8 straum... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...friend ; a wise man and a fool. * * * * Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, » » • a What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards." If true greatness, then, does not consist in any external circumstances, in what does it consist ?... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 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 j say where greatness *: Where, but among the heroes and the wise 1" Heroes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. . Line 215. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Line 247. A wit 'sa feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man 's the noblest work of God. Line 254.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 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. Pope. CCCCVII. A man is never the less an artist for not having his tools about him; or a musician... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers hare 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 1' Heroes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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 1 '... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 pages
...useful science, to be good." There is a couplet which I ought to carry in my own recollection — " What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards." It is an apt illustration of the office of hospitality, " Welcome the coming, speed the going guest."... | |
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