 | Philip Withers - English language - 1822 - 414 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.* If under serious Conviction of its final Importance, I thus consecrate a Page of my Essay to Religion,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...heroes might have been leu numerous, or, however, less mischievous. W. NOTES. 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. 240 All... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 390 pages
...m.Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains ; Like good AureHus let him reign or bleed Like Socrates — that man...fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. All fame is foreign, but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 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. .. Our hearts are fasten'd to this world, By strong and endless ties ; But every sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 48 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 fame...fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Just what you hear, you have, and what's unknown The same (my Lord) if Tully's... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 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. * This is a solecism : wickedness and wisdom are incompatible. Wickedness is an infallible evidence... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 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. Vf hat's fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 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. ' NOTES. Ver. 222. an enemy of all mankind .'] Had all nations, with regard to their heroes, been of... | |
 | Memoirs - 1824 - 242 pages
...by noble means attains, " Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains; A DEIST. " Like great Aurelius let him reign, or bleed " Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." Such a man as this, 1 believed myself to be ; and therefore, from the height of my imaginary superiority,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824
...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." NOTES. Ver. 220. From Macedonia's] He has fallen into the common cant about Alexander the Great. Think... | |
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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... 
