 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...  Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son - Page 167by George Gregory - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat ; ?Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : • 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat : 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. 41 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...magnanimity of the last scene of his life, none are ignorant. Cicero and science wept his unnatural death. Who noble ends, by noble means, obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like graxl Aurelias, let him reign or bleed, Like Socrates that man is great indeed.* Notwithstanding the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat, Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 758 pages
...thoff can conquei* thefe can '"Us phrafe nbfurdlo c.ill a villain great : [cheat, Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Poke's EJJaj an Man. king's ministers; and of thefe the higher i were ftyled abthants, and thofe of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat, 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise or madly brave, Is but the more...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'... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...weak. Hut grant that those can conquer, these can cheat, -"I'is phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise or madly brave, Is but the more...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...precious is obtain'd. But what is painful too; Hi/ travel and to travel born, Our sabbaths are but few. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 178 pages
...precious is obtain'd, But what is painful too ; By travel, and to travel born, Our sabbaths are but few. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius lei him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Our hearts arefasten'd to this world,... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...can conquer, tlicse caí» cheat ; Tie phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is u ISP, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knare. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiies in exile or in chains, Like good Aurclius... | |
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