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 the British Poets - Страница 99по Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1773 - 394 страници
...wife, or madly -brave, 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 Like' Stcrate!, that man is great indeed. What's Fame ! a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 страници
...cheat ; "Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Soerates, that man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us,... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 страници
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who nobte 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 is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in other's breath ; A thing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 страници
...; *Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great ; 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed. 235 Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others;breatn, A thing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 страници
...; "Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : z30 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, finiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 335 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 страници
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, finiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 135 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What 's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 страници
...cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great: Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble...Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aureliut let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 страници
...; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 23* Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 .Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 страници
...or madly brave, Ts but the more a fool, the more a kr.ave.. Who noble ends by noble means obraius, . Or, failing, fmiles in exile or in chains ; Like good...bleed Like Socrates — that man is great indeed. What's fame ? — a fancy'd life in others breadr;A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. All fame... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 страници
...cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 23S Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What 's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing... | |
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