 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...fortune, and be honourable Without the stamp of merit : let some presume To wear an undeserved dignity. Oh that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived...honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer, Pick'd from the chaff' w^A ruin of the times — I will assume desert : give me a key for this ; (45)... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...fortune, and be honourable Without the stamp of merit: let some presume To wear an undeserved dignity. Oh that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived...honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer, Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times— I will assume desert: give me a key for this; (4.5)... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 312 pages
...fortune, and be honourable Without the stamp of merit : let some presume To wear an undeserved dignity. Oh that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived...honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer, Pick'd from the chaff" and ruin of the times— / will assume desert : give me a key for this ; (4o)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...fortune, and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived...clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover, that stand bare T How many be commanded, that command t How much low... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. 0, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover, that stand bare? How many be commanded, that command? How much low peasantry... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 474 pages
...none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover, that stand bare? How many be commanded, that command ? How much low peasantry... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 472 pages
...none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover, that stand bare? How many be commanded, that command ? How much low peasantry... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 pages
...none presume To wear an undeserved tlinnity. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd said hoiy father's name, Pope Innocent, 1 do demand of the«. A'. JoAn. Wha ! How many then should cover, that stand bare ? How many be commanded, that command J How much low... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover, that stand bare? How many be commanded, that command? How much low peasantry... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...thee, So idle worldlings merely made of voice, Censure the power above them. Sen Jonson. DCCCLI. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived...honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover, that stand bare? How many be commanded, that command ? How much low peasantry... | |
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O, that estates, degrees and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover that stand bare! How many be commanded that command ! How much low peasantry would then be... 
