 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...  An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke - Seite 59von Alexander Pope - 1824 - 72 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1735 - 246 Seiten
...thefe can cheat, 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 220 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains^ • Or failing, fmiles in Exile or in chains, . • . Like good Aureliut let- him reign, or bleed • 21 § Like Socrates,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1736 - 64 Seiten
...theie can cheat, 'Tis Phrafe abfurd, to call a Villain great. 220 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a Fool, the more a Knave. Who noble Ends, by noble Means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in Exile, or in Chains ; Like good Aurelius let him reignjor bleed- 225 Like Socrates, that... | |
 | William Warburton - 1742 - 220 Seiten
...will be the Reward, whatever be the IJfue : Who noble Ends by noble Means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in Exile or in Chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. IV. With regard to FAME, that ftill more fantaftic Bleffing,... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 426 Seiten
...will be the Reward, whatever be the Iflue : Who noble Ends by noble Means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in Exile or in Chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. IV . With regard to Fame, that ftill more fantaftick Bleffing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 Seiten
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him...Socrates, that Man is great indeed. -, ; What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what you hear, you have,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 Seiten
...can cheat ; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 274 Seiten
...can cheat ; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 Seiten
...will be the reward, whatever be the ifluc: Who mile ends by nobk means obtains^ Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. . ' V£E. 237. fW)3t'f Fomi?] IV. With regard to FAME, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 Seiten
...thefe can cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great: 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 Seiten
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurclius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what you hear, you have,... | |
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