 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
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 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 reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's NOTES. as his condud\ to the Tynans, and thofe... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 502 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 reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's NOTES. as his conduit to tlte Tynan*, and thofe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 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 reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. NOTES. What's as his conduft to the Tynans, and thofe... | |
 | 1806 - 642 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing fmiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Aureliu> let him reign or bleed Like Socrates ; that man is great indeed." It would not have fuited the poet'j purpofe.or rather that of his infidei infbuâor, Bolingbroke, to... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...noble ends, by noble means, obt:iins, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like [food 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... | |
 | John Sabine - 1807 - 316 pages
...call a villain great : 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,...man is great indeed. What's Fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, eVn before our death. Just what you hear, you have, and what's unknown,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 540 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,...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 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,...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 pages
...villain great : 239 " 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,...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, "... | |
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