 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...thro' fcroundels ever fmce the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots, or flaves, or cowards? 215 Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDs. Look next onGreatnefs; fay where Greatncfs lies? «... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...thro' fcroundels ever fmce the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots, or flaves, or cowards ? 215 Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDs. Look next on Greatnefs ; fay where Greatnefs lies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...thro' 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 flaves, or cowards ? t\r Alas ! notall the blood of all the HOWARDS. Look next on Greatnefs; fay where Greatnefs lies?;... | |
 | Lady - 1759 - 284 pages
...had, for the fake of her fortune only, beftowed a title on her. Bur, as Pope fays, What can enoble fots, or flaves, or cowards ? Alas ! — not all the blood of all the Howards. This mufhroom lady, with the magnificent Mrs. Sable, was the ftanding fubject for contempt and ridicule.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...thro' 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...cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS. 215 Look next on Greatnefs j fay where Greatnefs lies ? '« Where, but among the Heroes and the Wife... | |
 | Joseph Grove - 1764 - 506 pages
...thro' fcoundrels vver fince the flood* Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers have been fools fo long» What can ennoble fots, or flaves, or cowards? Alas 1 not all the blood of all the Howards." To dwell no longer, therefore, on a point, which will admit... | |
 | English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...through fcoundrels ever fince the Rood, Go ! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots or...cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS. Look next on greatnefs ; fay where greatnefj lies .3 " Where but among the heroes and the wife ?" Heroes... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 642 pages
...infufed, its inhabitants, juflivc and inanimate, would be incapable of defending themfelves;'' • " What can ennoble fots, or flaves, or cowards ? Alas \ not all the blood of all the Howards." Nor are the peculiar principles bf-aТсйагу, fuffrcicrtt ground on which tp eftabjb'fl} a general... | |
 | James Burgh - Great Britain - 1775 - 540 pages
...— —Grant that thofe can conquer ; thofe can cheat, 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great. What can ennoble fots, or flaves, or cowards ? Alas, not all the blood of all the Howards. POPE. Chartres, the bafeft of all rafcals, was wont to fay, fee cared not one farthing for real virtues j... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...ever fince the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been fools (b long. What can ennoble fots, or flaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS. Look next on Greatnefs ; fay where Greatnefs lies, " Wb/:re but among the Heroes and the Wile.'" '... | |
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But by your father's worth if your's you rate, Count me thofe only who were good and great. Go 1 if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' fcoundrels ever fince the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers have been... 
