 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
 | William Benford Aitken - 1912 - 322 halaman
...a record, but in many cases he could not ascertain the name of some person and had to leave it out. "Great families of yesterday we show and Lords whose parents were the Lord knows who" (Daniel de Foe in The True-Born Englishman). WBA CONTENTS HIM PREFACE v THE BEEKMAN FAMILY CHATTER... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 halaman
...the Counter and the coronet. 95 Tarpaulin lords, pages of high renown, Rise up by poor men's valor, ce Of forced sighs and trusty tearfulness; A rain...of tears, a cloud of dark disdain, Hath done the we Then let us boast of ancestors no more, Or deeds of heroes done in days of yore, In latent records... | |
 | Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1916 - 764 halaman
...WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER. Minutes of the December Meeting -------- 1C3 OLD ST, JOHN'S CHURCH YARD, PEQUEA, "Great families of yesterday we show And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who." — Defoe. Pennsylvania, obviously, was not named after William Penn the Quaker, but in honor of his... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 halaman
...COULANGES — L'Origine de la Noblesse. (See also PRIOR for translation. Also GROBIANUS, TENNYSON). 9 red rose cries, "She is DANIEL DEFOE — The True-Barn Englishman. Parti. L. 372. 10 Born in a Cellar, * * * and living in... | |
 | Kittochtinny Historical Society, Chambersburg, Pa - 1923 - 1860 halaman
...characters who had much to do with the early history of our town. Let us address ourselves to the task. Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who." Danie/ Defoe _ The True-Born Englishman. _. Part 1. L. 372 Ihere is some discrepancy in various accounts... | |
 | 1925 - 262 halaman
...Winchester, Ky. Rev. JHB Hall — Associate Birmingham, Ala. Calvin C. Blair— Life Beloit. Kansas "Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who." — DeFoe. SOME BLAIRS OF ULSTER PROVINCE, IRELAND BLAIR, or Blare, means a plain, clear of woods,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 halaman
...small distinction set Betwixt the counter and the coronet. Tarpaulin lords, pages of high renown, 365 aint To sweeten liberty; Some bold ...C. Heath and company"% Cross Tom Peete" Tom Peet 1701 ODES abrafjam Cotolep (1618-1667) ODE VI. UPON THE SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE MARK that swift arrow... | |
 | William Henry Irving - 1928 - 508 halaman
...Betwixt the Counter and the Coronet. Tarpaulin L[or]ds, Pages of high Renown, Rise up by Poor Mens Valour, not their own. Great Families of Yesterday...And Lords, whose Parents were the Lord knows who. 1 Dryden, 1693. • Part I, p. 17 (1708). Juvenal's poem is truly dramatic; his Umbricius is a real... | |
 | 1899 - 552 halaman
...Prophets and American Problems. By Lyman Abbott. Our New Naval Personnel. By Edward L. Beach, USN " Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, Whose parents were the Lord knows who." Mrs. Burton Harrison's Society Story In two parts. Old New York of one hundred years ago, and the social... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 halaman
...for — " Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes." And— " Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who." Certainly there is vigour in this satire, however much it may lack polish. The national manners, Defoe... | |
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