 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pàgines
...a Caisar dead ; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine. 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. .L Fame but from death a villain's namo can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pàgines
...living, as a Cmsar dead; Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When what to oblivion better were resigned, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1096 pàgines
...as that of the possessive case, it not being always spaced off for distinction, as it may be; as, " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." — Pope, on Man, Ep. iv, L 247. OBS. 24. — As the objective case of nouns is to bo distinguished... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pàgines
...as a Caesar dead ; Alike or when or where, they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's...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... | |
 | William Hughes Willshire (of?) - 1896 - 128 pàgines
...public of South Australia it will open the eyes of one or two who were instrumental in my downfall. A wit's a feather and a chief a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. One of my horses had strayed away from the others this morning, so I sent a blackfellow... | |
 | John James Currier - 1896 - 752 pàgines
...distant is a stone erected In Memory of Mr Richard Page who Was Drowned July 13"' 1780. Aged 30. A Wits A Feather And A Chief A Rod. An Honest Man's the Noblest Work of God. One of the most unique and strikingly characteristic epitaphs in this old burying ground reads... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pàgines
...or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chiefs 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. All fame is foreign,... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1908 - 888 pàgines
...to fix its exact size, remember Pope's lines which hit the imagination with a dull, muffled knell : "A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God." 306 WHERE THE PADRES FISHED: BLACK BASS AND TRODT LAKE BARA, CALIFORNIA. NEAR MISSION OF SANTA... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pàgines
...dead ; AJike, or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Eubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest...resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but conies not to the heart : One self... | |
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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... 
