 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...a fool, the more u knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or iu angs Parian wreaths ; A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn ; Fills up the farmer's lan What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...cheat : "1'is phrase absurd to call a villain great ; Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but tho more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or iu chains, Like good Anrelins let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...conquer, these can cheat; Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon further examination, perceived there wer smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let bim reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | James Wood Davidson - 1888 - 188 pages
...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. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, or, failing, smiles in exile or in chnins, like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed like Socrates, that man Is... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - 1888 - 292 pages
...sots or slaves or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates,' that man is great indeed. 235 1 "To find an enemy of all mankind," signifies to find some one who is an enemy of all mankind,... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...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. 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, than man is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 pages
...these can 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, i 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, I Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed I 235 Like Socrates, that... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...conquer, these can cheat ; "T is phrase absurd to 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, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius * let him reign, or bleed 4 Like Socrates, that man... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 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 noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius2 let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates3, that... | |
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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... 
