| 1827 - 290 páginas
...purpose of their lives to find, Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! # * * * » 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 Mason - 1828 - 162 páginas
...with laughter the vain toil survey^ And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Pope's Essay on Man. [35] Socrates' saying, That he knew nothing but his ignoTance of every thing,... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 páginas
...those can conquer ; these can cheat; '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 ex'le or in chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates — that man... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 páginas
...can conquer, these can cheat; 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great: 230 p 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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...those can conquer, these can cheat ; 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. POPE. At home surrounded by a servile crowd, IVompt to abuse, and in detraction loud ; Abroad begirt... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 páginas
...The 216. The Howards.] The heroes ... the politic and Dukes of Norfolk. wise. 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 235 Like Socrates : that man... | |
| Charles Peter Mason - 1879 - 282 páginas
...to urge, and reason to restrain." " Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call." " Who wickedly is wise or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave." '' See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow, which * who but feels can taste, but thinks can know."... | |
| Charles Peter Mason - 1879 - 108 páginas
...to urge, and reason to restrain." " Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call." " Who wickedly is wise or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. " ' ' See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow, which J who but feels can taste, but thinks can... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Who wickedly is wise, ave smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 páginas
...those can conquer, these can cheat ; '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 is... | |
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