 Tis impudence and money makes a peer. Innumerable City knights, we know, From Bluecoat Hospital and Bridewell flow ; Draymen and porters fill the city Chair And footboys magisterial purple wear. Fate has but very small distinction set Betwixt the counter...  The True-born Englishman: A Satire - Halaman 20oleh Daniel Defoe - 1836 - 39 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1903 - 400 halaman
...gentlemen of rakes. Antiquity and birth are needless here: 'Tis impudence and money make the peer. Great families of yesterday we show ; And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who." It matters little, however, what we as individuals may think of the House of Lords or of the peerage... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1904 - 326 halaman
...; 'T is impudence and money makes a peer. Innumerable City knights, we know, From Bluecoat Hospital and Bridewell flow ; Draymen and porters fill the...whose parents were the Lord knows who. PART II THE breed 's described : Now, Satire, if you can, Their temper show, for manners make the man. Fierce,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1904 - 610 halaman
...here ; Tis impudence and money makes a peer. Innumerable City knights, we know, From Bluecoat Hospital and Bridewell flow ; Draymen and porters fill the...whose parents were the Lord knows who. PART II THE breed 's described : Now, Satire, if you can, Their temper show, for manners make the man. Fierce,... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 halaman
...'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. — Daniel Defoe, 1663-^31. Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. — Daniel Defoe. It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.—... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1905 - 332 halaman
...here ; Tis impudence and money makes a peer. Innumerable City knights, we know, From Bluecoat Hospital and Bridewell flow ; Draymen and porters fill the...whose parents were the Lord knows who. PART II THE breed 's described : Now, Satire, if you can, Their temper show, for manners make the man. Fierce,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 340 halaman
...; T is impudence and money makes a peer. Innumerable City knights, we know, From Bluecoat Hospital and Bridewell flow ; Draymen and porters fill the...whose parents were the Lord knows who. PART II THE breed 's described : Now, Satire, if you can, Their temper show, for manners make the man. Fierce,... | |
 | Price Collier - 1909 - 388 halaman
...gentlemen of rakes. Antiquity and birth are needless here: 'Tis impudence and money makes the peer. Great families of yesterday we show; And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who." The Saxon system still prevails. Those who push themselves to the front, those who accumulate a residue... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1910 - 438 halaman
...of rakes. Antiquity and birth are needless here ; 'Tis impudence and money makes the Peer. * * * * Great families of yesterday we show, And Lords whose parents were the Lord knows who." In the names given before this quotation I have relied solely on the testimony of the family appellation,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 halaman
...and within his power To leave the figure, or disfigure it. 3693 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc 1. Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. 3694 Defoe. : True-Born Englishman. Pt. i. Line 1 Parents, to their offspring blind, Consult nor parts,... | |
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