 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...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 Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 kuave. Who noble cads by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in cbains; Like goed... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...those can conquer, these can cheatj '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. It is not success therefore that constitutes true greatness; but the end aimed at; and the means which... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...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. It is not success therefore that constitutes true greatness; but the end aimed at; and the means which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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. Wh» VZR. 207. Baast the pare UaaJ, toV.] In the MS. thus, The richest blood, right-honourably old,... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...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...Who noble ends by noble me^ans obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile, or in chains : Like good Aurelius let him reign ; or bleed Like Socrates ; that man... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...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...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurellus let him reign, or bleed Like Soeratts, that man is... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 852 pages
...bring about Thy wifhcs, thou art witkedlj devout. Dryien. 'Tis pbrafe abfurd to call a villain great : Who wickedly is wife or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Pope. * WICKEDNESS. «. /. [from wicked.} Corruption of manners ; guilt; moral ill. — It is not good... | |
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Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. 
