 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, H *Ш * God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As Justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon7, or on the Rhine. 240 A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. 1 Alexander the Great. 5 Marcus Tnllins Cicero, the cele2 Charles XII. of Sweden, born at brated... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second ? " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work...appeared execrable to a person of the most moderate taste.i It affords a strong confirmation of the foregoing observations, that the Poets of some nations... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second ? " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work...appeared execrable to a person of the most moderate taste.1 It affords a strong confirmation of the foregoing observations, that the Poets of some nations... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...that, in the following lines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second ? " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod An honest man's the noblest work of God." Were the first of these lines, or a Hue equally unmeaning, placed last, the couplet would have appeared execrable to a person of the most... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine. Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. .L Fame but from death a villain's namo can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...the first for the sake of the second ? " A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man ;s the noblest work of God." Were the first of these...execrable to a person of the most moderate taste. Why alliteration is introduced. — It affords a strong confirmation of the foregoing observations,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...Alike or when or where, they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; 2M When... | |
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All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade... 
