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 Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays - Strana 87podľa Alexander Pope - 1751Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| 1796 - Počet stránok 504
...can conquer, these can cheat, . 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great: 25o Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 2jj Lite Socrates, that man... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - Počet stránok 384
...further than his nofe. No lefs alike the Politic and Wife ; 2$£ All fly flow things, with circumfpeftive eyes : Men in their loofe unguarded hours they take,...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed £35 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame, a fancied life in other's breath, A thing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - Počet stránok 386
...further than his nofe. No lefs alike the Politic and Wife; 225 All fly flow things, with circumfpeclive eyes: Men in their loofe unguarded hours they take,...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 1235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. • What's Fame, a fancied life in other's breath, A... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - Počet stránok 140
...those 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...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - Počet stránok 408
...afpect, and a fmile at heart. True grcatntfs. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, liniles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Tte tear of Jjmfaily. No radiant pearl, which crofted Fortune... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1800 - Počet stránok 694
...cruelly, as we fhall fee he did. Is this, then, the man, whom Mr. Pope celebrates in the following lines ? Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing...chains, Like good * Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. — Providence fcems however to have determined, that thofe... | |
| 1800 - Počet stránok 322
...those 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...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... | |
| John Mason - 1801 - Počet stránok 192
...flcies ? Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raife. Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, or more a knave. CHAP. XIII. Kind cf Knowledge we are already furnrjltd wi/i, and -what Degree of Efteem... | |
| John Mason - 1801 - Počet stránok 464
...ikies ? Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil fnrveys, And buries madmen iu the heaps they raife. Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, or more a knave. Pope's Effay,tn Ufa/I*CHAP. XIII. What Kind nf Knowledge we* are already furnijled... | |
| Svenska akademien - 1920 - Počet stránok 798
...Pred. Boken l Gap. 2 versen ganska klen. N:o 18 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; this man is great indeed. Pope Likaledes utan förtienst. Herrar Kellgren, Edelcrantz,... | |
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