 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 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 ; When... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 pages
...Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa 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 ; 150... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or ou the Rhine. A wit's a feather, 8 , God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As Justice tears his body from the grave; When... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, PATRIOT, rose but to restore The faith and moral Natur God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 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... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...no condition rise ; Act well your part : there all the honor lies. Essay on Man. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Essay on Man. Know, then, this truth (enough for man to know) : " Virtue alone is happiness below."... | |
 | John Thain Davidson - 1884 - 304 pages
...Guid faith, he mauna fa' that" A sentiment which Pope also has expressed : — " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." II. If you are hunting for " a man," look out for a being that has a heart. I am using the word... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...or slaves, or cowards? Alas I not all the blood of all the Howards.—Line 215. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.—Line 247. One self-approving hour, whole years outweighs.—Line 255. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO... | |
 | 1885 - 544 pages
...dead, 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 what... | |
 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1886 - 530 pages
...shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies." " A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." The poetic endowments of Pope were of thn first order ; and there occur in his works, short passages... | |
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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... 
