| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...great. CIO Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flooj, Go ! and pretend your family is young ! Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 215 Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Rationalism - 1834 - 408 pages
...at the astonishing antiquity of the institution? Would not the advice of Pope apply in this case ? " Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fbob so long." If the antiquity of a sect or society proved its utility, or that it was founded in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 215 Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| Noah Webster - Readers - 1835 - 270 pages
...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 sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...were good and great. Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since ol. And then the so long. What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...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 sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...leather and 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 sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...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 sots or slaves or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...were good and great. Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the 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.... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...and great Go ! if your ancient, but ignob'e blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flimd strip them for the fig hi . Their folded sheets dismiss the useless air : ' so long. What can ennoble sotfi, or slaves, or cowards ! Alas! not all the blood of all the Howard*.... | |
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