 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
 | 1806 - 678 דפים
...mce of which will now be given. " Who noble cuds by noble means obtains, Or failing i miles in eiile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign or bleed Like Socrates ; that man if great indeed.* It would not have fuited the poet'c purpofe.or rather that of his infidel inftrudtor,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 דפים
...death. Who noble ends, by noble means, obtains, Or fuiling', smiles in exile or in chains, Like pfood Aurelius, let him reign or bleed, Like Socrates that man is great indeed.* . Notwithstanding the partial estimation, in which Socrates was held by antiquity, and however extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 דפים
...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 partial estimation, in which Socrates was held by antiquity, and however extraordinary... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 דפים
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, 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 life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death : Just what... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 542 דפים
...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 let him...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Our hearts are fasten'd to this world, By strong and endless ties; But ev'ry sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 דפים
...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 235 " Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. " What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, "... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 דפים
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, 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 life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death : Just what... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 518 דפים
...those lines, Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like pood Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.* Providence seems however to have determined, that those who, in contradiction to the feelings of human... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 דפים
...brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Like £Oocl Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man is great indeed L. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath ; A tiling beyond us, e'en before our death. Ju.it... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 דפים
...Who noble ends by iwble means obtains. Or failing, -mil" in exile or in chaius, Like good Aurclius - . What's fame? af.uicy'd life in other's breath ; A thinj; beyond us, ev'n before our death. •Iti-it... | |
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