 I'd ha' you sober, and contain yourself, Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still; Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing From...  The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. - Side 266redigert av - 1850Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1850 - 736 sider
...gives the following graphic account of the love of the world for an ancient lineage : — " The .varans of the Herald's College can always find appropriate...will suffice, and I will then proceed to frame my adventure* from such authenticated materials and traditional memorials as appear to mo to deserve the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 sider
...mind in envy cold, Always within itself doth burn. Fix* JEFFRY. GENTILITY. NOR stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. BEN JONSON. MARRIAGE. As good and wise ; so she be... | |
 | 1855 - 494 sider
...yourself ; Not that your sail be bigger than your boat, Nor stand too much on your gentility. Which ia an airy and mere borrowed thing From dead men's dust and bones, and none of yours, Unless you make or hold ." — Ben Jonson. In a previous volume of this serial,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 sider
...in your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. JOSEPH HALL. 1574 —1656. Joseph Hall, Bishop of... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1855 - 266 sider
...Solomon. And I believe he was honest. XXXIV. OUK SOCIAL REPUBLICANISM. " Stand not so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it." WE are all capital republicans— Fudges, Pinkertons,... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1858 - 416 sider
...of my ancient descent, from a period of some seventy-nine years antecedent to the taking of Troy ; and were I to consider the various ramifications of...dust and bones," but pride myself on the name I have myself made and held. To return to my parentage, a brief account of which will suffice, and I will... | |
 | 1859 - 188 sider
...your expenses now (at first), As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing From dead men's dust and bones; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. ADVANTAGES OF READING. IF I were to pray for a taste... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sider
...moderate your expenses now (at first) As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. THE PLEASURES OF HEAVEN. THERE all the happy souls... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 sider
...moderate your expenses now, at first, as you may keep the same proportion still, nor stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere borrowed thing, from dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours except you make, or hold it. BEN JONSON 928 ELIDURUS—AULUS DIDIUS—VELLINUS... | |
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