| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...Lucrece : Bat 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...own your fathers have been fools so long. What can eunoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? — Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...Lnerece: 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 I and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can eunoble... | |
| Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 páginas
...be drunk ; 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...long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness. Say wheve greatness lies ? Where,... | |
| Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 páginas
...LUCRECE; But 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...long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS. ESSAY ON MAN. DOROTHY STOCKDALE, my virtuous, and affectionate... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...your antient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend vour s around. Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns r From s Vi hat can ennoltlc sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Ahs! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 páginas
...Luorece : Bat 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...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 ? "... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...!,uerece : But by 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...young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. VARIATION. After ver. 172, in the MS. Say, what rewards this idle world imparts, Or fit for searching... | |
| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 páginas
...Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend...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,... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 páginas
...the family, which will always, when reflected on, be rather the subject of mortification than glory : Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble, blood Has crept...young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. III. The Poet in the next place [from 1. 206 to 227] unmasks the false pretences of GREATN ESS, whereby... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 páginas
...the family, which will always, when reflected on, be rather the subject of mortification than glory : Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble, blood Has crept...young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. III. The Poet in the next place [from 1. 206 to 227] unmasks the false pretences of GREATNESS, whereby... | |
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