 | 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
...conquer, thefccan cht^t "Ti.^ iihrafe :ib;\ird to call a villain great: Win) wickedly is wife, or mr.tlly 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 Socrates, that man is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...grant that those can conquer, tírese can chc.tt, Th phrase abiurd to call а villain, grçat îï Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the mure a knar£. faßt. ABSU'RUITY. ni [fron> absurd.} j. The quality of being absurd ; want ,of judgment,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...that themselves are wise, but others weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat : Tis phrase absurd, to call a villain great ; Who wickedly...madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. 41 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...can conquer, thefe can 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...conquer, thefe can 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...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... 
