...much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives to find, Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. In the hands of Swinburne, who employed...

...much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! cannot be independent of those strikingly similar lines on military ambition (where identically the...

...much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; 220 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. No less alike the Politic and Wise; 223...

...much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; 220 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. No less alike the Politic and Wise, 225...

...much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind! cf. ibid., 1. U. 160, and Henry Fielding Jonathan Wild, 1. 3; see also 'New Anecdotes of Alexander...

...much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find, Or make an enemy of all mankind." To shew the reader how easily this feat may be performed, I will take any two of our Monarchs, that...