 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...  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq - Page 367by William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745Full view - About this book
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...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 is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. juft what... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...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,...or bleed. Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. s What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, iV thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...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,...or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...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 great indeed. What 's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath; A thing beyond us, cv'n before our death. Juft what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 384 pages
...Villain Great : 230 *Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is 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 Aureliua let him feign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame, a fancied... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath ; A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Just what... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...joy : A caft unlike the triumph of the proud; A modeft afpect, and a linile at heart. True grcatnifs. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Tte tear of fyir.fatlyNo radiant pearl, which crefted Fortune wears, No gem, that twinkling hangs from... | |
 | Joseph Milner - Church history - 1800 - 694 pages
...we fhall fee he did. Is this, then, the man, whom Mr. Pope celebrates in, the following lines ? Who Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. — Providence feems however to have determined, that thofe who, in contradiction to the feelings of... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knaveWho noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, falling, smiles in exile, or in chains. Like good Aurelius let him...bleed • . * Like Socrates; that man is great indeed ! What's fame ? a fancy 'd life in others breath ; A thing beyond us, even before our death. Just what... | |
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