 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 406 Seiten
...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, than man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, even before... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 Seiten
...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 4 Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. 1 a kind of woolen stuff 2 The allusion is to Alexander... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...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...Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Just what you hear, you have,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 586 Seiten
...failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius2 let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates3, that Man is great indeed. 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 Seiten
...failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius8 let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates3, that Man is great indeed. 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,... | |
 | John A. Kersey - 1894 - 588 Seiten
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed." "If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind; Or, ravished... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 Seiten
...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...Socrates, that man is great indeed, What's fame, a fancied life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear, you have,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 496 Seiten
...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...Socrates, — that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancied life in others' breath ; A thing beyond us, e'en before our death; Just what you hear you have;... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 Seiten
...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...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. Know then this truth—enough for man to know" Virtue alone is happiness below." 1. Brocade, ignoble,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none! n. POPE— Temple of Fame. L. 523. ; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth ; Love repulsed, — but e'en before our death. o. POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 237. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the... | |
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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... 
