 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 111by Alexander Pope - 1804Full view - About this book
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...great,. Who wickedly is Tt-zVf , or madly brave, Is but more the/bo/, the »«o/"£ a knave. Ajiproba. ,Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains, Admiration Like good Aurelius let him n?/£-« ; or £/£t?J Like 'Socrates ; that man is great indeed.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...but tile more a fool, the more a knave. 170 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmilcs in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed »3 J Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. ,What 's Fame ! * fancy 'd life in others* breath, Tli»... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1804 - 102 pages
...peace, Oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. P., travel, and to travel born, Our sabbaths are but few. / \ Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,, smiles in exile or iii chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed I, lice Socrates, that man is great indeed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains. Or failing, fr.ulcs in exile or in chains, I ike good Aurciius let him reign, or bleed »?; Like Socrates., that Man is great indeed. What 's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others' bwtri, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What 's fame? a fancy 'd life in other's breath A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Jull what... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 pages
...afpect, and a fmile at heart. TRUS GRBJTN8SS. Who noble ends by noble means obtains,Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleedLike Socrates, that man is great indeed. THE TEAK Of SYMPATHT.No radiant pearl, which crefted... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...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,...man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear you have, and what's unknown... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 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... | |
 | 1806 - 678 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiies in exile or in chains, Like good Aurclius kt him reign, or bleed, Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a faiicy'd life in other's breath; A thing beyond us, cv'n before our death. Just what you hear, you... | |
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