 | Elegant poems - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 132
...still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise, 225 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. D 3 All «ly slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in (heir loose unguarded hours they take,... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...weak. But grant that those can conquer ; these can cheat j 'Tis phrase, absurd to call a villain great. 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...weak. But grant that those can conquer ; these cam cheat ; 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, •» Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble me^ans obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains : Like good Aurelius... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...those can conquer, these can cheat 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wis«, 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 Aurellus... | |
 | 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 756
...thofe can conquer, thefe can 'Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great : [cheat, Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Pope's Efty an alar.. Pliny. ABSYRTF.S, or ABSYP.TUS, in ancient myth; logy, the infant foil of JEetes,... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...man of this moral age, in the annals of Scotland. But, " Tis phrase absurd, to call a villain good ; Who, wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave." By his wife Agnes, Murray left two daughters, Margaret, and Mary : The first married Sir James Steuart... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...But grant that those can conquer, these can > In at : "Pis phrase absurd to call a villain great ; ness at home. But wisdom's triumph is well-tim'd retreat, As hard a science to Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...can conquer ; -these can cheat i 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wiso, 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...weak. But grant that those can conquer ; these can cheat : 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great. Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a tool, the more a knave, Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat ; • 'Tis phrase absurd to call a Villain Great : 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... | |
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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... 
