 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...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 fame, a fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear, you have,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
...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 fame ? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, e'en before our death; Just what you hear you have;... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 676 pages
...will soothe my pensive ghost ; He best can paint them who shall feel them most. FAME. WHAT'S fame ta fancy'd life In others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear, you have ; and what's unknown, The same (my lord) if Tully's, or your own. All... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...fame, And strength, and art, are easily outdone fcy spirits reprobate. MILTON. What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear, you have; and what's The same, my lord, if Tully's, or your own. All that we feel... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none! n. POPE— Temple of Fame. L. 523. ; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth ; Love repulsed, — but e'en before our death. o. POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 237. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1896 - 536 pages
...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. Know then this truth—enough for man to know" Virtue alone is happiness below." 1. Brocade, ignoble,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost ; He best can paint them who shall feel them most. FAME. WHAT'S fame ? a fancy'd life In others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear, you have; and what's unknown, The same (my lord) if Tully's, or your own. All that... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 640 pages
...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 fame ? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, e'en before our death ; Just what you hear you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 120 pages
...Aurelius 3 let him reign, or bleed 225 Like Socrates, 4 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 you hear, you have, and what's unknown, The same (my Lord) if Tully's, or your own. 230 All... | |
 | New York (State). Civil Service Commission - Civil service - 1898 - 1204 pages
...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. — Pope. Questions 3 and 4 refer to the foregoing selection. 3. (a) Select all the subordinate clauses,... | |
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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... 
