 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...aspect, and a smile at heart. True Greatness. "Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like bocrates, that man is great indeed. The Tear of Sympathy. No radiant pearl, which crested fortune wears,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...Socrates ;—that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breath; A thing beyond us, e'en before our death: Just what you hear you have;... | |
 | Philip Withers - English language - 1822 - 414 pages
...despise such vain and imaginary Distinctions. 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.* If under serious Conviction of its final Importance, I thus consecrate a Page of my Essay to Religion,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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 fame? a fancied life in others' breath; A thing beyond... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...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 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. encomiums bestowed on him by two such judges of men as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...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 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. NOTES. encomiums bestowed on him by two such judges of... | |
 | Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Anrelius, let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Our hearts are fasten'd to this world,' By strong and endless ties ; But every sorrow cuts a string,... | |
 | James Wood Davidson - English language - 1888 - 188 pages
...the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, or, failing, smiles in exile or in chnins, like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed like Socrates, that man Is great indeed." A passage from a later poet will show an increased disregard of the verse division, and tend to prove... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates,' that man is great indeed. 235 1 "To find an enemy of all mankind," signifies to find some one who is an enemy of all mankind,... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - North Carolina - 1888 - 292 pages
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. POPE. CHAPTER XLI. CONTINUED PROGRESS. 1876. THE " Canby Constitution " of 1 868 was amended in 1875,... | |
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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... 
