| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...can conquer, thcfe 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, fmilcs in exile or in chains, Like go>d Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...can conquer, thcfc can cheat ; 'Tis phntfe abfurd to call a \illain great : Who wickedly is wile, or huih'd the holy child, Lo, he {lumbers neble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Amelius let him reign, or... | |
| 1794 - 918 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat; ' Гь phrafe abfttrd to call a villain great : 130 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, fmiks in exile or in chains, 1 ,ikc goo J Aurcliu» let him reign, or bleed Like .Socrates, that man... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...cheat; ' Ti- phrafe abfurd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is butthe 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 Socrates, that man is... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...can conquer, thcfe 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, (miles in exile or in chains, like good Aurclius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
| 1796 - 246 pages
...thefe can cheat; Vw phrafe abfurd to call a villain great: YVho wickedly is wife, or madly brave, IK 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 Socrates, that Man is... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 384 pages
...by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aureliua let him feign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame, a fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our deathk Juft NOTES. VER. 222. An... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...can conquer, these can cheat, 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave....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 breath ; A thing beyond... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...afpect, and a linile at heart. True grcatnifs. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Tte tear of fyir.fatlyNo radiant pearl, which crefted Fortune... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...can conquer, these can cheat: Tis phrase absurd, to cull a villain great; Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave....chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond... | |
| |