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" 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 fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of... "
Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son - Page 166
by George Gregory - 1808
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 964 pages
...who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' fcoundrels ever fmce e ftag among th' enraged hounds, Repels their force, and wounds returns for \\ounds. An Ib long. What can ennoble lots, or (laves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards,...
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

1795 - 432 pages
...father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your antient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever...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 ..•....
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 908 pages
...good and great. Go '. if your ancient, but ignoble blood an Has crept through 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 ? Alas I not all the blood of all the Howards,...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...were good and great. Go \ if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept thro' fcoundrcls 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 llaves, or cowards ? Alas '. not all the blood of all the Howards....
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 138 pages
...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...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. "...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...Lucrece: Eut 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...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 ? "...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking ...: To which are ...

Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pages
...rate, l! ' Count me those only, who are good and great, Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble Wood, Go i and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your fathers...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 ?...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...Count me those only who were good and great. 210 Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept thro' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend...can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 215 Alas ! net all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on Greatness ; say where greatness lies I " Where...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...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...long. What,, can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ; Ala^ not all the blood of all the Howards. /Look next on greatness. Say where greatness lies ? ,Where,...
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The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for ...

James Burgh - 1804 - 308 pages
...blood, Has crept thro' scoundrels ever ^ince the flood : Go ! and pretend your family is young, Xor own, your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards .?* Queftioi^ Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness. Say, where great"...
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