 | Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...beginning, the middle, or the end of a sentence, as in the following couplets: " Get place and irmll/i. if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place." Pope, u Some have at first for wilt, then poets, pass'd, Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fooli... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...the coming, speed the parting guest. The Odyssey, Booh xv. Line 84. Epistles of Horace continued.] Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.1 Epistle i. Booh i. Line 103. Ahove all Greek, ahove all Roman fame.2 Epistle i. Booh ii. Line... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...used ; In heaps, like ambergris, a sink it lies, And well dispersed is incense to the skies. POPE. Get place and wealth, — if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. POPE. Now, in such exigencies not to need, Upon my word you must be rich indeed : A noble superfluity... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Epistles of Horace continued.] He 's armed without that 's innocent within. Epistle i. Book \. Line 94. Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.1 Epistle \. Book \. Line 103. Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.3 Epistle i. Book ii. Line... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1875 - 540 pages
...mouth of a corrupt and unscrupulous man. It has been thus well translated: — " Get wealth and power, if possible, with grace ; If not — by any means get wealth and place." — POPE. Again : — " My friend, get money ; get a large estate, By honest means ; but get, at any... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...itself. Ki 6 Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, and you may ride round the world. Steme. Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope. Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr. Get thee to a nunnery ! //я«/,,... | |
 | Ontario Beekeepers' Association - Bee culture - 1893 - 418 pages
...seeker, and the son imbibes it all. It becomes his first principle of action in life. It is this : " Get place and wealth ; if possible with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place." Take the opposite picture. The influence of the parent on the child is good and wholesome. The parent... | |
 | Hospitals - 1893 - 342 pages
...rather than the maxims of Solomon, the expression of their chief object of desire and effort, — " Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any nienns get wealth and place," we may find in La Motte's life and work a corrective for this unworthy... | |
 | Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - China - 1894 - 506 pages
...The principle upon which a larger proportion act is simple and direct. In the words of Pope it is — ".Get place and wealth; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place." The purlieus of the examination halls are infested by a race of rakish scholars, who are prepared to... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - Bookbinding - 1895 - 830 pages
...the beginning, the middle, or the end of a sentence. Take, for instance, the following lines :— " Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place/' In these lines the emphatical words are accented, and which they are the sense will always discover.... | |
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Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. 
