 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
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 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 fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1881 - 150 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, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...a fool, the more u knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or iu angs Parian wreaths ; A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn ; Fills up the farmer's lan What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelins o kings, Taught nor to slack nor strain its tender strings?, The What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Just what... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or iu chains, Like good Anrelins r the mast at noon — The wedding-guest hero beat his breast, F What's fame ta fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'u before our death. Just what... | |
 | James Wood Davidson - English language - 1888 - 188 pages
...the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, or, failing, smiles in exile or in chnins, like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed like Socrates, that man Is great indeed." A passage from a later poet will show an increased disregard of the verse division, and tend to prove... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 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. 235 1 "To find an enemy of all mankind," signifies to find some one who is an enemy of all mankind,... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - North Carolina - 1888 - 292 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. POPE. CHAPTER XLI. CONTINUED PROGRESS. 1876. THE " Canby Constitution " of 1 868 was amended in 1875,... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 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 reign or bleed Like Socrates, than man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, even before... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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 reign, or bleed 4 Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. 1 a kind of woolen stuff 2 The allusion is to Alexander... | |
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