| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pàgines
...Cyesar dead : Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A Wit's a feather, and a Chief a rod : An honest Man's the noblest work of God. NOTES. posing and ridiculing the common fabulous poetic accounts of these inferior and subordinate... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pàgines
...Csesar dead : Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A Wit's a feather, and a Chief a rod : An honest Man's the noblest work of God. NOTES. posing and ridiculing the common fabulous poetic accounts of these inferior and subordinate... | |
| 1822 - 284 pàgines
...but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; .When what to' oblivion better were resign'd Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self-approving... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pàgines
...where they shone or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or pn the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chiefs a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame...resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...as a Cœsar dead ; Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. ing reigu'd: these first in Crete And Ida known, thence...highest heaven ; or on the Delphian cliff, Or in Do When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pàgines
...in vain ?" Warton. Ver. 248. An honest man's] Plato says, Hailut iefurar<m \<nn o «y«0o;. Warton. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As...resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pàgines
...where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. 33 A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. 34 All fame is... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pàgines
...Caesar dead : Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. COMMENTARY. Ver. 237. What's fame ?] IV. With regard to FAME, that still more fantastic blessing,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pàgines
...Caesar dead : Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. COMMENTARY. Ver. 237. What's fame f] IV. With regard to FAME, that still more fantastic blessing,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pàgines
...Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; — • An honest man 's the noblest work of God. — Fame but from death a...resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind, All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving... | |
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