 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1795 - 432 lehte
...the 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 lehte
...the 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... | |
 | 1800 - 322 lehte
...the 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 - 1802 - 278 lehte
...ignoble 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 lehte
...prunella4 Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, "Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§ To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy.|| In a work of so serious and severe a cast, in a work of reasoning, in a work of theology, designed... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 lehte
...prunella.}; Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.§ To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy.y In a work of so serious and severe a cast, in a work of reasoning, in a work of theology, de..... | |
 | 1806 - 330 lehte
...the 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 lehte
...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...Again : •' To sigh for ribbands, if thou art so •ay, " Mark how they grace Lord Umbr» or Sir Billy." But these lines are of the high buriesque kind,... | |
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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 hav.e been... 
