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... Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq - עמוד 367מאת William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Alexander Pope - 1763 - 150 דפים
...Villain Great: 236 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ! a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1763 - 154 דפים
...or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, . i Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ! a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1768 - 726 דפים
...•villain Great; 3>1O IV bo -wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool , the more a knave . Who noble ends by noble means obtains , Or failing , fmiles. in exile or in chains , Like good vtfURELIUS let him reign, or bleed 235 Like SQCR*4TES , that man is great indeed . Tame? a fancy^d... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 דפים
...Villain Great : " Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, " Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. '* Who noble ends by noble means obtains, " Or failing,...bleed '• Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." It is obfervable, that the writer on no occafion (hews a more indignant fpirit, than where he points... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 דפים
...Villain Great : " Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, " Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. " Who noble ends by noble means obtains, " Or failing,...bleed " Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." It is obfervable, that the writer on no occafion fhews a more indignant fpirit, than where he points... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1772 - 376 דפים
...Villain Great : Who wickedly is wife , or madly brave , Is but the more a fool ; the more a knave»-. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,...or bleed Like Socrates , that Man is great indeed. What's Fame? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us , ev'n before our death. 240 Juft what... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1772 - 374 דפים
...noble ends by noble means obtains, z$$ Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurdius let him reign , or bleed Like Socrates , that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in ochers breath , A thing beyond us , ev'n beibre our death. 240 Juft... | |
| 1773 - 394 דפים
...wife, or madly -brave, Is but the more a-fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means-obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like' Stcrate!, that man is great indeed. What's Fame ! a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 דפים
...call a Villain Great : Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Soerates, that man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us,... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 דפים
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who nobte ends by noble means 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 ? a fancy'd life in other's breath ; A thing... | |
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