 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 Seiten
...Poitiers ? 100 Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.' For what? to have a box where eunuchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or he, who bids... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 Seiten
...? i oo Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.' For what ? to have a box where eunuchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or he, who bids... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 Seiten
...? ioo Who counsels best \ who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate ; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.' For what \ to have a box where eunuchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or he, who bids... | |
 | Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 Seiten
...beginning, the middle, or the end of a sentence, as in the following couplets: " Get place and irmll/i. if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place." Pope, u Some have at first for wilt, then poets, pass'd, Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fooli... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 Seiten
...name. Rem facias : rem si possis recte, si non quocunque modo rem (Horace) — Get wealth and power, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. Risus abundat in ore stultorum — And gentle dulness ever loves a joke. Spes bona dat vires animarum,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 Seiten
...the coming, speed the parting guest. The Odyssey, Booh xv. Line 84. Epistles of Horace continued.] Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.1 Epistle i. Booh i. Line 103. Ahove all Greek, ahove all Roman fame.2 Epistle i. Booh ii. Line... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...used ; In heaps, like ambergris, a sink it lies, And well dispersed is incense to the skies. POPE. Get place and wealth, — if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. POPE. Now, in such exigencies not to need, Upon my word you must be rich indeed : A noble superfluity... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...Epistles of Horace continued.] He 's armed without that 's innocent within. Epistle i. Book \. Line 94. Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.1 Epistle \. Book \. Line 103. Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.3 Epistle i. Book ii. Line... | |
 | 1875 - 540 Seiten
...mouth of a corrupt and unscrupulous man. It has been thus well translated: — " Get wealth and power, if possible, with grace ; If not — by any means get wealth and place." — POPE. Again : — " My friend, get money ; get a large estate, By honest means ; but get, at any... | |
 | James Keith (novelist.) - 1876 - 286 Seiten
...reienral.] Happy he With such a mother ! TENNYSON'S " PRINCESS." SO SINKS THE DAY-STAR. CHAPTER I. Get place and wealth : if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. POPE'S Epistle. IT is not given to every man to know that five and seven do not make eleven, but Mr.... | |
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Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~ 
