"Tralineate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... name and empty honour strive, 390 Our true nobility from him derive. Your ancestors, who puff your mind with pride, And vast estates to mighty titles tied, Did not your honour, but their own, advance; For virtue comes not by inheritance. If you tralineate from your father's mind, What are you else but of a bastard kind? Do, as your great progenitors have done, And, by their virtues, prove yourself their son. No father can infuse or wit or grace; 400 A mother comes across, and mars the race. A grandsire or a grandame taints the blood; And ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden |
