 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...205 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. aio Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...205 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. 210 Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble... | |
 | Donald Lines Jacobus - Reference - 1968 - 134 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 thro' scoundrels ever since the flood. Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own,... | |
 | Ettore Bonora - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 252 pages
...In quiet flow form 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 throu' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 pages
...205 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. ^19 Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece ; But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those , — For relief a sigh she brings ; And 0, her een they speak blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! 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... 
