 | English poetry - 1904 - 544 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. ALEXANDER POPE. PERSEVERANCE. Ix facile natures fancies quickly grow, But such quick fancies have but... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1904 - 352 pages
...speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. NICHOLAS ROWE Jane Shore act ii, sc. 1. What's fame? a fancy*d life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. POPE Essay on Man ep. iv, 1. 237. BUT But is derived from the Anglo-Saxon butan,... | |
 | English language - 1905 - 644 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in e.rile or in chains, Like good Auretius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. CASE IN NOUNS 24. Meaning of the Word Case. — The student has already learned that a noun or a pronoun... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1907 - 568 pages
...chains, Like good Aurelius2 let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates3, that Man is great indeed, f 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 Tally's, or your own. 240... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 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. Superior talents are depreciated in their turn, like fame and riches : If parts allure thee, think... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1909 - 632 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. <j What's fame, a fancied life in other's breath, \ A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 498 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 492 pages
...means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleerf Like Socrates, that man is great indeed What's fame?...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 506 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 fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Mrs. Martha (Humphreys) Maltby - United States - 1918 - 898 pages
..."Who noble ends by noble means attains, That man is great, in exile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius, let him reign or bleed — Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." There is no doubt that he knew more of Scotland's great poet, Burns, than any other man in this section.... | |
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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... 
