 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 328 pàgines
...the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; i An honest man's the noblest work of God. jFame but from death a villain's name 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. All fame is foreign... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pàgines
...dead ; Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa ; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...Cassar dead ; Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon7, or on the Rhine. 240 A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. 1 Alexander the Great. 5 Marcus Tnllins Cicero, the cele2 Charles XII. of Sweden, born at brated... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pàgines
...where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame...Justice tears his body from the grave ! 250 When what to oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pàgines
...read. Who can doubt that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second ? " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod An honest man's the noblest work of God." Were the first of these lines, or a Hue equally unmeaning, placed last, the couplet would have... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pàgines
...read. Who can doubt that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second ? " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." Were the first of these lines, or a line equally unmeaning, placed last, the couplet would have... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - 1855 - 352 pàgines
...these words he fairly pushed her in, signing for Major Gordon to follow. CHAPTER XII. UNCLE LAWRENCE. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod, An honest man's the nohlest work of God. — Hnx. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pàgines
...shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man 's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's...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, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pàgines
...shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man 's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's...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-approring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pàgines
...the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, and a chief a rod ; /An honest man 's the noblest work of God. SFame 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... | |
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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... 
