 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's...  Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son - Pągina 167per George Gregory - 1808Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pągines
...thole can conquer, thcfc can cheat ; 'Tis phntfe abfurd to call a \illain great : Who wickedly is wile, nd huih'd the holy child, Lo, he {lumbers neble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Amelius let him reign, or... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pągines
...conquer, thefe can cheat; ' Гь phrafe abfttrd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiks in exile or in chains, 1 ,ikc goo J Aurcliu» let him reign, or bleed Like .Socrates, that man... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pągines
...cheat; ' Ti- phrafe abfurd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is butthe more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed. Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pągines
...rhofc can conquer, thcfe can cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, (miles in exile or in chains, like good Aurclius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pągines
...thefe can cheat; Vw phrafe abfurd to call a villain great: YVho wickedly is wife, or madly brave, IK but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 384 pągines
...by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aureliua let him feign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame, a fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our deathk Juft NOTES. VER. 222. An... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pągines
...weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat, 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath ; A thing beyond... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pągines
...afpect, and a linile at heart. True grcatnifs. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Tte tear of fyir.fatlyNo radiant pearl, which crefted Fortune... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pągines
...weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat: Tis phrase absurd, to cull a villain great; Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more...chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1800 - 694 pągines
...Pope celebrates in, the following lines ? Who Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good *Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. — Providence feems however to have determined, that thofe... | |
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