 | John James Robert Manners Duke of Rutland - Poetry, English - 1841 - 176 pages
...Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years, Shrined in our hearts with Crecy and Poictiers, "*" Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, > But leave us still our old Nobility ! " But," cries the warm and eager friend of man, " Tis vain our various wants and ills to scan. Unless... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1894 - 324 pages
...remain, Yours respectfully, THE MAN IN THE REPORTER'S Box. NOBLESSE OBLIGE. (New Version.) " LET Art and Commerce, Laws and Learning die, But leave us still our Old Nobility ! " Without them, in our democratic day, Who will the part of princely patriot play ? Who else will... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...forehead of the queen of heaven.' All that marks the progress of modern times is denounced — ' Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.' Nor are these frenzied ideas confined to poetry only. The Revolution of 1688, is denounced as authoritatively... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...forehead of the queen of heaven.' All that marks the progress of modern times is denounced — ' Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.' Nor are these frenzied ideas confined to poetry only. The Revolution of 1688, is denounced as authoritatively... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 608 pages
...Names that shall live for yet unnumber'd years, Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers ; Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility." — P. 24. We suspect some of the old nobility may have instinctively exclaimed on reading these lines,... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...House of Commons. He once quoted in a spirit of banter and ridicule the well-known couplet, — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility — which appeared in the boyish volume of poems, "England's Trust," published by Lord John Manners... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 770 pages
...ember wn* not almni rvpcntngt be quotation with a alight alteration, Customs and Corn {MARCH 27} " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning, die ; But leave us still our old fertility." Perhaps if the country had nothing hut that fortuity to depend on, the hon. and learned... | |
 | George Crosby - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1849 - 564 pages
...a very slight alteration, would most appositely express the views of the Hon. Gentleman: — " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, "But leave us still our own fertility." He (Mr. Bouverie) apprehended, if we had had nothing but that fertility to depend upon,... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years, Shrined in our hearts with Crescy and Poictiers ; Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning, die, But leave us still our old nobility." " Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the... | |
 | 1854 - 974 pages
...who, in an analogous paroxysm of political wisdom, recorded the wellknown ejaculation : ' Let arts and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility !' ' This work,' our author says, and we think justly, ' is alone sufficient to prove that Mr. Disraeli's... | |
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Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old Nobility. 
