 | 1819 - 364 pages
...through that granary of honours, I there found almost every name in the kingdom ; but for me, " My ancient but ignoble blood " Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood." Gules, Purpure, Argent, &c. quite disowned me. My father was of the north of Scotland, the son of a... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 392 pages
...through that granary of honours, I there found almost every name in the kingdom ; but for me, , " My ancient but ignoble blood " Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood." Gules, Purpure, Argent, &c. quite disowned me. My father was of the north of Scotland, the sou of a... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Lucrece : But, by your father's worth if yours you rate. Count me those only who were good and great. orgot to rave, [w«w. While birds of calm sit brooding...stedfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness ; say, where greatness lies: "... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 368 pages
...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...long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greamess— say where greatness lies. "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...Lucrece: . But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who are good and great Gu! 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. "Where... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...Lucrece: But by yout father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who are good end great, Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept...scoundrels ever since the flood : Go ! and pretend your faoiily is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...great G<.' ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood IJaj crept through scoundrels ever since the fioo1 . Go! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble s«ts, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas! not all the bio«d of all the Howards. Look next on greatness... | |
 | 1820 - 780 pages
...have two strings to their bow. III. Pope exposes, in admirable poetry, the idle vanity of those whose ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood. But I never have met this folly more strikingly exemplified than in an account of the family of Rosencrantz,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...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 through...long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. [lies : Look next on greatness ; say, where greatness... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...those only who are good and great. 210 Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood, Has crept througii scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend...! 215 Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede : 220 The whole... | |
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