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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...

Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues ... - Seite 42
von Alexander Pope - 1762 - 347 Seiten
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Improvement Era, Band 5,Ausgabe 1

1901 - 502 Seiten

...pitch,—would that its tone could reach the Rich! She sang this "Song of the shirt!" FAME. BY ALEXANDER POPE. What's fame? A fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear, you have; and what's unknown, The same (my lord) if Tully's,...

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