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, Esq - Сторінка 87автори: Alexander Pope - 1751Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 72 стор.
...can 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...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains : Like good Aurelins let him reign or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 243 стор.
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 807 стор.
...can conquer, these can cheat : "1'is 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 207 стор.
...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 Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath , A thing beyond... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 253 стор.
...aspect, and a smile at heart. True Greatness. "Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like bocrates, that man is great indeed. The Tear of Sympathy. No radiant pearl, which crested fortune... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...can 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...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains. Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...can 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...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains. Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | 1822
...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... | |
 | Philip Withers - 1822 - 396 стор.
...despise such vain and imaginary Distinctions. 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.* If under serious Conviction of its final Importance, I thus... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1822
...in the annals of Scotland. But, " Tis phrase absurd, to call a villain good ; Who, wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave." By his wife Agnes, Murray left two daughters, Margaret, and Mary : The first married Sir James Steuart... | |
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