| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 páginas
...those can conquer, these can cheat 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wis«, or madly brave, Is .but the more a fool, the more...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurellus let him reign, or bleed Like Soeratts, that man is... | |
| Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 páginas
...those can conquer ; these cam cheat ; 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, •» Is but the more a fool, the...Who noble ends by noble me^ans obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains : Like good Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...can conquer ; these can cheat j 'Tis 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... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1816 - 852 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 páginas
...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... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 398 páginas
...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... | |
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