 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...or a Caesar dead; Alike, or when or where, they shone or shine, Or on ihe Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave -f When what t'oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Ciesar dead ; Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Kuhicon, or on the Rhine. A nit's a feather, and a chief a rod: . An honest man's the...save, As Justice tears his body from the grave ; 250 Wh'Ti what t' oblivion better were rcsipn'd, Is hum; on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's-a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...a Oesar dead ; ' Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod : An honest man's...work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name ean save, At Justice tears his body from the grave ; 2iO When what t' oblivion better were resign'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Caesar dead : Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's...resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...read. Who can doubt that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the firft for the fake of the fecond ? « A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Were the firft of thefe lines, or a line equally unmeaning, placed laft, the couplet would have... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 564 pages
...read. Who can doubt that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the firft for the fake of the fecond ? " A wit's a, feather, and a chief a rod ; «' An honest man's the noblest weik of God." Were the firft of thefe lines, or a line equally unmeaning, placed laft, the couplet... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...Cgesar dead ; Alike, or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's...resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame,...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When what t' oblivion better were consign'd Is hung on high to poison half mankind* All fame is foreign,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...can doubt that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second .' * A wit'aa feather, and a chief a rod ; , " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Were the first of these lines, or a line equally unmeaning, pl.tced last, the couplet would have... | |
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Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One... 
