 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
 | 1806 - 678 pages
...mce of which will now be given. " Who noble cuds by noble means obtains, Or failing i miles in eiile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign or bleed Like Socrates ; that man if great indeed.* It would not have fuited the poet'c purpofe.or rather that of his infidel inftrudtor,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...death. Who noble ends, by noble means, obtains, Or fuiling', smiles in exile or in chains, Like pfood Aurelius, let him reign or bleed, Like Socrates that man is great indeed.* . Notwithstanding the partial estimation, in which Socrates was held by antiquity, and however extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...noble ends, by noble means, obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like graxl Aurelias, let him reign or bleed, Like Socrates that man is great indeed.* Notwithstanding the partial estimation, in which Socrates was held by antiquity, and however extraordinary... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelins let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates ;— that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death : Just what... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...to travel born, Our sabbaths are but few. 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. Our hearts are fasten'd to this world, By strong and endless ties; But ev'ry sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...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 235 " Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. " What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, "... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelins let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates ; — that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death : Just what... | |
 | Joseph Milner - CHR 1809 - 1809 - 518 pages
...those lines, Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like pood Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.* Providence seems however to have determined, that those who, in contradiction to the feelings of human... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Like ŁOocl Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man is great indeed L. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath ; A tiling beyond us, e'en before our death. Ju.it... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Who noble ends by iwble means obtains. Or failing, -mil" in exile or in chaius, Like good Aurclius - . What's fame? af.uicy'd life in other's breath ; A thinj; beyond us, ev'n before our death. •Iti-it... | |
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