 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 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 other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear you have, and what's unknown... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 472 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is. great indeed." WARBURTON. NOTES. VER. 220. Front Macedonia's'] He has fallen into the common cant about Alexander... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 790 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." WARBUR.TON. NOTES. VEK. 220. From Macedonia's] He has fallen into the common cant about Alexander the... | |
 | 1806 - 682 pages
...noble ends by nuble means obtains, Or failing iiml&î in exile or in chain:. ; {.ike good Aurelius let him reign or bleed Like Socrates ; that man is great indeed." It would not have fuited the poet's purpofe,or rather that of his infidel inftruoor, Bolingbroke, to... | |
 | 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 you hear you... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...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...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. 249... | |
 | 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 yon hear yon... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiies in exile or in chains, Like good Aurclius kt him reign, or bleed, Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a faiicy'd life in other's breath; A thing beyond us, cv'n before our death. Just what you hear, you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reigu, or bleed Like Socrates ; — that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breatli ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our deatli : Just what you hear you... | |
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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... 
