 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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 scoundrels, ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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 scoundrels, ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...father's worth if yours you rate, « Count me those only who were good and great. 2 1 0 «' 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 fools so long. " What... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 scoundrels ever since the flood ; Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can eunoble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...by your fathers' 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 scoundrels ever since the flood ; Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...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 through scoundrels ever since the flood ; Go, and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 500 pages
...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 scoundrels ever since the flood; Go, and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...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 through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. VARIATION. After... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 scoundrels, ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...which will always, when reflected on, be rather the subject of mortification than glory : 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 fools so long. III. The Poet... | |
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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 fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the... 
