 NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. WHOM do we dub as Gentlemen ? The knave, the fool, the brute If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly suit; The parchment scroll of titled line, the riband at the knee; Can still suffice to ratify and grant such high...  Short Patent Sermons - Page 5by Elbridge Gerry Paige - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...often happens that the mors ws see into a mau, the less we admire him.— Pliny. VOL. 5— No. 6—2 N. WHOM do we dub as Gentleman? The knave, the fool,...brute, If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly suit ; The parchment seroll of titled line, the riband at the knee, Ctn still suffice to ratify... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...I can make you a. knight, or even a duke, but God only can make you a gentleman." Whom do we dub a gentleman ? — The knave, the fool, the brute, If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly suit! The parchment scroll of titled line, the ribband at the knee, Can still suffice to ratify... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...evident from the following lines which we extract from •• NATURE'S GENTLEMAN." « Whom do we dab as gentleman ? The knave, the fool, the brute — If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly •ait! The parchment «roll of titled line, the ribband at the knee, Can still suffice to... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 434 pages
...vigorous and persevering application. NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. BY ELIZA COOK. WHOM do we dub as gentleman t The knave, the fool, the brute— If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a costly suit ? The parchment scroll or titled line — the riband at the knee, Can still suffice to ratify and grant... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1849 - 560 pages
...as the pall, Nor sceptre so feared as the spade." NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. Whom do we dub as gentlemen ? The knave, the fool, the brute — If they but own full tithe of gold and wear a courtly suit! The parchment scroll of titled line, the riband at the knee, Can still suffice to ratify... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English poetry - 1850 - 440 pages
...thy Marion soon will find A grave in Ellerslie ! NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. WHOM do we dub as gentlemen ? The knave, the fool, the brute — If they but own full tithe of gold and wear a courtly suit! The parchment scroll of titled line, the riband at the knee, Can still suffice to ratify... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...wonder the rogue had such slaughtering trade, For the arrow was laden with gold. NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. Whom do we dub as gentleman ? — the knave, the fool,...— If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly suit ! The parchment scroll of titled line — the ribbon at the knee, Can still suffice to... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1851 - 328 pages
...is wild, But kings might envy the gipsy child. H NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. Whom do we dub as gentlemen ? The knave, the fool, the brute — If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly suit ; The parchment scroll of titled line, the riband at the knee, Can still suffice to ratify... | |
 | Arts - 1852 - 432 pages
...the stern approach of wintry sadness. NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. WHOM do we dub a gentleman? The knave, tho fool, the brute— If they but own full tithe of gold, And wear a conrtly suit. The parchment scroll of titled line, The riband nt the knee, Can still suffice to ratify... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 542 pages
...as the pall, Nor sceptre so feared as the spade." NATURE'S GENTLEMAN. Whom do we dub as gentlemen ? The knave, the fool, the brute — If they but own full tithe of gold and wear a courtly suit! The parchment scroll of titled line, the riband at the knee, Can still suffice to ratify... | |
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