| John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...can conquer, these can cheat, 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great: 230 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who nobte ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 páginas
...But grant that thofe can conquer, thefe can cheat ; *Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great ; 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but 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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 páginas
...But g:ant that thofe can conquer, thefe can cheat ; "Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : z30 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more...a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, finiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 335 Like Socrates,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 páginas
...his nofe. ' No lefs alike the Politic and wife ; All fly flow things, with circumfpe&ive eyes : Men Men in their loofe unguarded hours they take; Not...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 Like Socrates, that... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 páginas
...But grant that thofe can conquer, thefe can cheat ; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 23* Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but 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,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 páginas
...But grant that thofe can conquer, thefe can cheat; 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : 230 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but 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 23S Like Socrates,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 páginas
...hours they take, Not that thcmfelvcs are wife, but others weak. But grant that thofe can conquer, thcfe can cheat, *Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great...a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmilcs in exile or in chains, Like go>d Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 páginas
...thole can conquer, thcfc can cheat ; 'Tis phntfe abfurd to call a \illain great : Who wickedly is wile, nd huih'd the holy child, Lo, he {lumbers neble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Amelius let him reign, or... | |
| 1794 - 918 páginas
...But^rant that thofe can conquer, thefe can cheat; ' Гь phrafe abfttrd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more...a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiks in exile or in chains, 1 ,ikc goo J Aurcliu» let him reign, or bleed Like .Socrates,... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 páginas
...cheat; ' Ti- phrafe abfurd to call a villain great : 130 Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is butthe 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. Like Socrates, that... | |
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