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... The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Page 87by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 308 pages
...lo 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 reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Our hearts are fasten'd to this world, By strong and endless... | |
| 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
...bring 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... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. 4. 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. GENERAL EMPHASIS, Is that emphatic force, which, when the... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a tool, 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... | |
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