 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...The rest is all but leather or prunella. 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... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...The rest is all but leather or prunella. 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... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - North Carolina - 1888 - 292 pages
...The rest is merely leather or prunella. If by your fathers' worth your own 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, What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece :' But by your fathers' 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,1 Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 pages
...strings, 205 That thou mayst be by kings or whores of kings. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, 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... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece; But by your fathers' worth if jours 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, Gol and pretend your family is young; Nor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your fathers' 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; Kor... | |
 | William Charteris Macpherson - Nobility - 1893 - 438 pages
...its antiquity, but what it represents. " But by your fathers' 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...strings. That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings, Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, 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... | |
 | Richard Welford - Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - 1895 - 736 pages
...aito Matter Seott, DOCTORS OF MEDICINE. " But by your fathers' 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 since the flood, Co ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor... | |
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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 have been... 
