 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...  Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar - Page 95by Lindley Murray - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Warburton - 1742 - 220 pages
...be the IJfue : Who noble Ends by noble Means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in Exile or in Chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. IV. With regard to FAME, that ftill more fantaftic Bleffing, he mews [from 1. 226 to 249] that all... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...be the Iflue : Who noble Ends by noble Means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in Exile or in Chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. IV . With regard to Fame, that ftill more fantaftick Bleffing, he mews f from l. 226 to 249] that all... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 pages
...noble Ends by noble Means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in Exile or in Chains, , « Like good Aurelim let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. ; , j IV. With' regard to Fame, that frill more fantaftkrk Bleflhig, he Ihews f from 1. 226 t»24o]... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 pages
...whatever be the ifluc: Who mile ends by nobk means obtains^ Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. . ' V£E. 237. fW)3t'f Fomi?] IV. With regard to FAME, And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...be ihe iflue : Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. YfR, 237. Dial's ranic?] IV. With regard to FAME, 146 ESSAYONMA N. Ep. Juft what you hear, you have,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains , 2JS Or foiling, fmiles 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 us , cv'n before our death. 240 Juft... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...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 Socrates, that man is great indeed." It is obfervable, that the writer on no occafion (hews a more indignant fpirit, than where he points... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...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 Socrates, that man is great indeed." It is obfervable, that the writer on no occafion fhews a more indignant fpirit, than where he points... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1772 - 376 pages
...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 Socrates , that Man is great indeed. What's Fame? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us , ev'n before our death. 240 Juft what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1772 - 374 pages
...noble ends by noble means obtains, z$$ Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurdius let him reign , or bleed Like Socrates , that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in ochers breath , A thing beyond us , ev'n beibre our death. 240 Juft... | |
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