 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...political wisdom was undoubted ; his kindness and his cruelty were, I fear, alike capricious. Bowles. The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise ; 225 All sly slow things, with circumspective... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...political wisdom was undoubted ; his kindness and his cruelty were, I fear, alike capricious. Bowles. The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise ; 225 All sly slow things, with circumspective... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...the wise !" troes ire much the same, the point's agreed, om Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 220 tie whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! pot one looks backward, onward still he goes, let ne'er looks forward further than his nose. Xc le?s... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...greatness lies. ' Where but among the heroes and the wise ?' Heroes are much the same, the point 's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise; All sly slow things with circumspective... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...but among the heroes and the wise ?" Heroes are mueh the same, the point's agreed, From Maeedonia's ho would never die, Love but themselves in their posterity. Or let his kindness by th' effeets be try'd, Or baekward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. No less alike the politie... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...greatness lies. " Where, but among tne heroes and the wise ?" Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede : The whole strange purpose of theuiives to find, Or make an enemy of all mankind^' Not one looks backward ; onward still he goes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...pato* lies: " Where but among the heroes and the wise?" Heroes are much the same, the point's iptwi, Parian marble frown : While the bright dames, to whom they humbly sued, Still sh toW Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks... | |
 | 1827 - 290 pages
...they dwell, There needs but thinking right, and meaning well ; Herues are much the same, the points agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The...their lives to find, Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! # * * * ยป Who wickedly is wise or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble... | |
 | Russel Canfield - 1827 - 272 pages
...majority of the audience ? Really, sir, you appear to have verified the truth of a certain poet : " Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward, further than his nose.'' A spice of the principle, which directs to " lie well for the truth," and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...the wise ?' Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede"; 220 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find,...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise : All sly slow things, with circumspective... | |
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The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. 
