 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...  The Works of the British Poets - Page 99by Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...cheat j 'Tis phrase, absurd to call a villain great. 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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...at : "Pis phrase absurd to call a villain great ; Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the retreat, As hard a science to the fair as great ! Beauties, like tyrants, old and smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...cheat i 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wiso, 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 Soerates — that man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...cheat; "Fis phrase absurd to call a villain great: 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... | |
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