 | John James Currier - 1896 - 752 pages
...stone erected In Memory of Mr Richard Page who Was Drowned July 13"' 1780. Aged 30. A Wits A Feather And A Chief A Rod. An Honest Man's the Noblest Work of God. One of the most unique and strikingly characteristic epitaphs in this old burying ground reads... | |
 | William Hughes Willshire (of?) - 1896 - 128 pages
...Australia it will open the eyes of one or two who were instrumental in my downfall. A wit's a feather and a chief a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. One of my horses had strayed away from the others this morning, so I sent a blackfellow... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1908 - 888 pages
...size, remember Pope's lines which hit the imagination with a dull, muffled knell : "A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God." 306 WHERE THE PADRES FISHED: BLACK BASS AND TRODT LAKE BARA, CALIFORNIA. NEAR MISSION OF SANTA... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
...AJike, or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Eubicon, 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 ; 250... | |
 | 1899 - 434 pages
...good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates — that man is great indeed. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. . . Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's bless'd . . See the... | |
 | 1899 - 408 pages
...good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates — that man is great indeed. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Know then this truth (enough for man to know): . . Never elated while one man's oppress' d; Never... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...me more Than ever king did, when he made a lord. —Ko-we: 'Jane Shore,* Act II. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. — Pope: * Essay on Man.* An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...me more Than ever king did, when he made a lord. — Row : 'Jane Shore,* Act II. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. — Pope: * Essay on Man.* An honest man, close button'd to the chin. Broadcloth without, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 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... | |
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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... 
