 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...quiet rtow from Lucrèce to Lucrèce : But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me thofc only who were good and great. Go \ if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' fcoundrcls ever fince the flood, Go \ and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 384 pages
...the pure blood of an illuflrious 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. 210 Go! VA RI AT IONS. VER. 207. Boaft the pure blood, £sV.] In the MS. thus, The richeft blood, right-honourably... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But 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 thro' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go, and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece: Eut 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1802 - 252 pages
...blood- of an illuftrious race tn quiet flow from Lucrèce to Lucrèce ; But by your father's worthj if your's you rate, Count me thofe only who 'were good and great. Go '. if your ancient,, bot ignoble blooá, '. Has crept thro fcoundrele ever frnce thé flood ; < ,.». ' Go ! and pretend... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...race In quiet Bow Lucrece -to Lucrece ; But by your father's worth, if year's 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... | |
 | James Burgh - Elocution - 1804 - 308 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrfce 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 thro' scoundrels ever ^ince the flood : Go ! and pretend your family is young, Xor own, your fathers have... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 232 pages
...The reft is all but leather or prunella. Go! ,if your ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through fcoundrels ever fince the flood ; Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots, or (laves, or cowards ? Alas... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...of an illuftrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : fiut by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me thofe only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, hut ignoble blood Has crept thro' fcoundrcls ever fince the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young;... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece: But 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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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 have been fools... 
