 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...but tile more a fool, the more a knave. 170 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmilcs in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed »3 J Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. ,What 's Fame ! * fancy 'd life in others* breath, Tli»... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains. Or failing, fr.ulcs in exile or in chains, I ike good Aurciius let him reign, or bleed »?; Like Socrates., that Man is great indeed. What 's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others' bwtri, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What 's fame? a fancy 'd life in other's breath A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Jull what... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1805 - 288 pages
...afpect, and a fmile at heart. TRUS GRBJTN8SS. Who noble ends by noble means obtains,Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleedLike Socrates, that man is great indeed. THE TEAK Of SYMPATHT.No radiant pearl, which crefted... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 232 pages
...Providence ; This course it has pursu'd, " Pain is the parent, woe the womb, " Of sound important good :" Our hearts are fasten'd to this world By strong and endless ties ; And ev'ry sorrow cuts a string, And urges us to rise. Twill sound severe — yet rest assur'd I'm... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...villain great ; Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. 41 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing,...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...magnanimity of the last scene of his life, none are ignorant. Cicero and science wept his unnatural death. Who noble ends, by noble means, obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like graxl Aurelias, let him reign or bleed, Like Socrates that man is great indeed.* Notwithstanding the... | |
 | 1806 - 678 pages
...mce of which will now be given. " Who noble cuds by noble means obtains, Or failing i miles in eiile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign or bleed Like Socrates ; that man if great indeed.* It would not have fuited the poet'c purpofe.or rather that of his infidel inftrudtor,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...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 is great indeed. What's NOTES. as his condud\ to the Tynans, and thofe... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...death. Who noble ends, by noble means, obtains, Or fuiling', smiles in exile or in chains, Like pfood Aurelius, let him reign or bleed, Like Socrates that man is great indeed.* . Notwithstanding the partial estimation, in which Socrates was held by antiquity, and however extraordinary... | |
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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... 
