 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
 | James T. Boulton - 1975 - 304 halaman
...Betwixt the Counter and the Coronet. Tarpaulin Lords,18 Pages of high Renown, 425 Rise up by Poor Mens Valour, not their own. Great Families of yesterday...can, Their Temper show, for Manners make the Man. 430 ... In their Religion they are so unev'n, 530 That each man goes his own By-way to Heav'n. Tenacious... | |
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