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Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues ... - Page 37
by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...the pure blood of an illuftrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me thofe only who were good and great. 2 1 o Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through fcoundrels ever fince the flood, Go...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...the pure blood of an illuftrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me thofe only who were good and great. 2 1 o Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through fcoundrels ever fmce the flood, Go...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to 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 scoundrels ever since the flood ; Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But 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...
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The Memoirs of the Life, and Writings of Percival Stockdale ..., Volume 1

Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 500 pages
...In quiet flow, from LUCRECE to 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 scoundrels ever since the flood; Go, and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But, But by your father's worth if your' a you rate, 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 your family is young ; Nor own .your fathers have...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to 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 scoundrels, ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...record a liil of fucii of them as are legitimated by the lenuincnt of-the poet of Twickenham : — " But by your father's worth if your's you rate, " Count me thofe only who were vaod And great" (IV.) ERSKINE, EMINENT PERSONS OF THE NAME OF. (i.) " Failing over llightiy the celebrated...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece, to 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 scoundrels ever since the flood : Go ! and pretend your family is young', Nor own your fathers...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But, by your father's worth if yours you rate. Count me those ld ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, [w«w. While birds of calm sit bro through scoundrels ever since the Flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers...
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