 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...loco." "Affect not these uncommon manners," they will say, with all the more boldness for its privacy, " Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it." " Nature,"... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...than your boat ; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still : Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it. Ben... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...than your boat ; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still : Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it. DCCCCLXXXIX.... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - Sports - 1858 - 416 pages
...Plantagenets, Tudors, and Stuarts. But, in the words of " rare Ben Jonson," " I do not stand so much on my gentility, , Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing From dead men's dust and bones," but pride myself on the name I have myself made and held. To return to my parentage, a brief account... | |
 | Business - 1859 - 188 pages
...than your boat; But moderate your expenses now (at first), As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy...bones; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. ADVANTAGES OF READING. IF I were to pray for a taste which should stand me instead under every variety... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - Aunts - 1861 - 352 pages
...EVENING.—TROUBLES. " I'd have you temperate, and contain yourself Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing, From dead man's dust and bones, and none of yours, Except you make or hold it. BEN JONSON. WHEN Mr. Wilton entered... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...than your boat ; But moderate your expenses now (at first) As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy...; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. THE PLEASURES OF HEAVEN. THERE all the happy souls that ever were, Shall meet with gladness in one... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...than your boat ; But niod'rato your expenses now (at ßrsl) As you may keep the samo proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing, ' From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it.... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...than your boat ; but moderate your expenses now, at first, as you may keep the same proportion still, nor stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy...bones ; and none of yours except you make, or hold it. BEN JONSON 928 ELIDURUS—AULUS DIDIUS—VELLINUS Elid. \f NOW that thou stand'st on consecrated ground... | |
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I'd have you sober, and contain yourself, Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still: Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing,... 
