 | British anthology - 1825
...Lucrece : But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those ouly 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 fools so long.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 300 sider
...Lucrece: But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. 28 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson - 1830 - 484 sider
...Lucrèce : But by your lathers'worth if yours you rate. Count me those only who were good and great. 210 ydeu since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own your father« have been fools so long.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830
...prunella.* . . . But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. f every good und "perfect gift for our happiness. And that our present ha siuce the flood, Go I and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers bave been fools so long.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 67 sider
...Lucrece : But by your fathers' worth if your's you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. CIO Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flooj, Go ! and pretend your family is young ! Nor own your fathers have been fools so long.... | |
 | Samuel B. Emmons - 1832 - 160 sider
...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 scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835
...: I But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, 209 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 fools so long.... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1835 - 252 sider
...be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. 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.... | |
 | 1838 - 336 sider
...Lucrece : 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 fools so long.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839
...Lucrèce : But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. ing and Rome alike in empire grew ; And arts still follow'd where her eag since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers have been fools so long.... | |
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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 all... 
