 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...those can conquer, these can cheat 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wis«, or madly brave, Is .but the more a fool, the more...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurellus let him reign, or bleed Like Soeratts, that man is... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...those can conquer ; these cam cheat ; 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, •» Is but the more a fool, the...Who noble ends by noble me^ans obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains : Like good Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...can conquer ; these can cheat j '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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...looks forward farther than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise, 225 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. D 3 All «ly slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in (heir loose unguarded hours they take,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 852 pages
...about Thy wifhcs, thou art witkedlj devout. Dryien. 'Tis pbrafe abfurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wife or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Pope. * WICKEDNESS. «. /. [from wicked.} Corruption of manners ; guilt; moral ill. — It is not good... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1818 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...can conquer, these can > In at : "Pis phrase absurd to call a villain great ; Who wickedly is wise, om's triumph is well-tim'd retreat, As hard a science...the fair as great ! Beauties, like tyrants, old and smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...those can conquer, these can cheat; "Fis 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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...can conquer ; -these can cheat i 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wiso, 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 Soerates — that man... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...conquer; these can cheat; "* 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wise, or maoly 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 Aurelins let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates — that man... | |
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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... 
