 | English poets - 1790 - 398 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 23S Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...thofe can conquer, thcfe can 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...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmilcs in exile or in chains, Like go>d Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...thole can conquer, thcfc can cheat ; 'Tis phntfe abfurd to call a \illain great : Who wickedly is wile, nd huih'd the holy child, Lo, he {lumbers neble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Amelius let him reign, or... | |
 | 1792 - 822 pages
...noble ends, by noble means obtains, Or falling f mi le s in exile or in chains; Like good Aurelias let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. ESSAY ON MAN. tent. Inftead of aquafortis, let us pour in the oil and quine — Let us endeavour to... | |
 | James Roach - 1793 - 274 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtain), Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Autelim 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, even before our death. Jufl what you hear, you have,... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...conquer, thefe can cheat; ' Гь phrafe abfttrd to call a villain great : 130 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, fmiks in exile or in chains, 1 ,ikc goo J Aurcliu» let him reign, or bleed Like .Socrates, that man... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...cheat; ' Ti- phrafe abfurd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is butthe 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...rhofc can conquer, thcfe can 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...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, (miles in exile or in chains, like good Aurclius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...thefe can cheat; Vw phrafe abfurd to call a villain great: YVho wickedly is wife, or madly brave, IK 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...wise, but others weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat, 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave,...man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath ; A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Just what you hear, you have ; and what's... | |
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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... 
