 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 trang
...HOWARDS. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies ? " Where, but among the heroes and the wise ?" Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 22O The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 trang
...on greatness — say where greatness lies. " Where, but among the heroes and the wise !" Heroes arc much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's...mankind ! Not one looks backward ; onward still he goes ; Yetjne'er looks forward, farther than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise ; All fly slow... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 trang
...Say where greatness lies ? Where, but among the heroes and. die wise. Heroes are all the same, it is agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede, {The...backward, onward still he goes ; Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose* No less alike the politic and wise ; AH sly, slow things, with circumspective... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 trang
...among the heroes and the wise ? Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, Trom Macedonia's mad man to the Swede : The whole strange purpose of their...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. No less alike the politick and wise ; All sly, slow things, with circumspective... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 trang
...Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies ? « Where, but among the heroes and the wise }' Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 280 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find, Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one... | |
 | 1816 - 832 trang
...Pope, " Heroes are much the same, tbe point 's agreed, From Macedonia's roadman to the Swede, The'whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind." Had my time permitted me to remain a week at Tonrnay, 1 might have selected from the researches of... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 trang
...must feel the discordance. The following couplet, sinking far below the subject, is no less ludicrous. Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. Essay tu Man, Ep. IV. 223. Le Rhin tremble et fremit à ces tristes nouvelles... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 trang
...Howards. Look next on greatness— say where greatness lies. " Where, but among the heroes and the wise ? Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede : -*C The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find, Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 trang
...discordance. The following couplet, sinking far below the subject, is no less ludicrous: •) , ;i . . , Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. Essay on Man, Ep. iv. 223. ' . ".i "• • !!••. : .. . .....:• Le Rhirt... | |
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 trang
...Say where greatness lies, <Where but among the heroes and the wise ?' Heroes are all the same, it is agreed', From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; The whole strange purpose of their lives, tbittiflp Or make—an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward ; onward stilt lie goes ; Yet... | |
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The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. 
