 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...conquer, these can cheat, -"I'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 Aurelins let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates ; — that man... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 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, Like £Oocl Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man is great indeed L. What's fame... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 518 pages
...those lines, Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like pood Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.* Providence seems however to have determined, that those who, in contradiction to the feelings of human... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...these canciieut; IV phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, 1' - H - iwble means obtains. Or failing, -mil" in exile or in chaius, Like good Aurclius let him reign, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...Never man was truly blest, True Greatnen. 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 was great indeed. The Tear of Sympathy. No radiant pearl, which crested fortune wears, No gem, that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...these can cheat ; 'Ti- phrase absurd to cnll a villain great: 230 Who wickedly is wise, or madly hravc, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble' means obtains, Orfnilintr, smiles in exile or in chains, lake goorl Auvelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 118 pages
...are but few. "Who noble ends by noble means obtaiut, "Or failing, fmiles in f xile or in chains, Xike good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Our hearts are faften'd to this world, By ftrong and endlefs ties ; But every forrow cuts a firing,... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 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 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 pages
...afpeft, and a fmile at heart. True greatness. "Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, {miles in exile or in chains, • . » . Like good Aurelius...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. The tear of fympathy. No radiant pearl, which crefted fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...will be the reward, whatever be the issue: 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. IV. With regard to FAME, that still more fantastic blessing, he shews [from 1. 226 to 249] that all... | |
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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... 
