 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 hav.e been...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 831by Great Britain. Parliament - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...pretend your family is young; 2ij Nor own , your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots , or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS? Look next on Greatnefs ; fay where Greatnefs lies ? „ Where, but among the Heroes and the Wife?"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1772 - 376 pages
...pretend your family is young ; 215 Nor own , your fathers have been fools fo long. What can ennoble fots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS? Look next onGreatnefs; fay where Grcatnefs lies? „Where, but among the Heroes and the Wife?" 220... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...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* I • . POPE. Etsay en Man, epist. iv. v : ' 'i ..•. .*.. \..'!.* RICH AND POOR. •l. . : • •... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies. " Where but among the heroes, and the wise ?" Heroes... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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. " Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies ? " Where, but among the heroes and the wise."... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...Wood, Go i 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 : Look next on greatness. Say -where greatness lies ? Where, but among the heroes and the wise. Heroes... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies ? " Where, but among the heroes and the wise." Heroes... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...admissible in the »olemn or sub ime stile. Pope has indeed admitted it intu his Essay on Man : " What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards, - Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards." Again : •' To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so •ay, " Mark how they grace Lord Umbr» or Sir Billy."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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. Look next ou greatness ; say where greatness lies? ' Where but among the heroes and the wise ?' Heroes... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...admissible in the jOlcmn or subüme slile. Pope has injeed admitted it into his Essay on Man : " What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards, " Alas ! not all the blood of all the Höwäi di." Again : " To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so »ill* " Mark how they grace Lord Umbra... | |
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