 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...As Christ Church once all colleges beside. 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 other's breath, A thing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 308 pages
...lo 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 every sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...ev'ry land, The work of an Almighty hand. 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 every sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 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...bleed Like Socrates — that man is great indeed. What's fame ! a fanci'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. All fame... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pages
...Who noble ends by noble deeds attains, Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains, Like good Autelius let him reign; or bleed Like Socrates; that man is great indeed." Nothing may be more contrary to the common practice of the world, than to resist the general torrent... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...aspect, and a smile at heart* " True Greatness. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or falling, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed ; " Lake Socrates, that man is great indeed. The Tear of Sympathy. .No radiant pearl, which crested... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains ; • Like good Aurclius, let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." t Cave-s Life of Polycarp. p. 53. 160 History of the Christian Church. [cH. IT; for them," said Pqlycarp,... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...Who noble enjs by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Aurelms, let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed," f Cave's Life of Polyoarp. p. S«. for them," said Polycarp, " it does not become us to turn from good... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...smile at heart. * * True grcu'.nsss. '• Wh« noble ends by noble means obtain«, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius, let him reign, or bleed Like tíocrates, that man is great indeed. 4 The tear of Sympathy. No radiant pearl which crested fortune... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. 4. 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. GENERAL EMPHASIS, Is that emphatic force, which, when the composition is very animated, and approaches... | |
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