| Alexander Pope - 1776 - 52 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat ; :Tif phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 23 Who wickedly is wife;, or madly brave,. Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. ^Vho noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmilts in exile or in chuius, Like good Aureiiuslet... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...can conquer, thefe can cheat ; "Tis phrafe abfurd to 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, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Soerates, that man is... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...conquer, these can cheat, 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great: 230 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat ; *Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great ; 230 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, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed. 235 Like Socrates, that man... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat ; "Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : z30 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, finiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 335 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, finiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 135 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What 's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...can conquer, thefe can cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to 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, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aureliut let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat ; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 23* 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, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 .Like Socrates, that Man... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...but the more a fool, the more a kr.ave.. Who noble ends by noble means obraius, . Or, failing, fmiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates — that man is great indeed. What's fame ? — a fancy'd life in others breadr;A thing... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 230 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, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 23S Like Socrates, that Man... | |
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