 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...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 partial estimation, in which Socrates was held by antiquity, and however extraordinary... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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 is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death : Just what you hear you... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...to travel born, Our sabbaths are but few. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains. Like good Aurelius let him...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Our hearts are fasten'd to this world, By strong and endless ties; But ev'ry sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death : Just what yon hear yon... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiies in exile or in chains, Like good Aurclius kt him reign, or bleed, Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a faiicy'd life in other's breath; A thing beyond us, cv'n before our death. Just what you hear, you... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...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 235 " Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. " What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others' breath, "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reigu, or bleed Like Socrates ; — that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breatli ; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our deatli : Just what you hear you... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Who noble ends by iwble means obtains. Or failing, -mil" in exile or in chaius, Like good Aurclius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. . What's fame? af.uicy'd life in other's breath ; A thinj; beyond us, ev'n before our death. •Iti-it what youhear,youhavc,ondwhat's... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Like £Oocl Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man is great indeed L. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath ; A tiling beyond us, e'en before our death. Ju.it... | |
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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... 
