 | 1796 - 500 sider
...best? whowhispers, "Bebut great, " With praise or infamy leave that to Fate I " Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; " If not, by any means get wealth and place." Si quadringentis sex septem millia desunt ; Est ' animus tibi, sunt mores, et lingua, fidesque: 2 Plebs... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 sider
...where one branch of the antithefis is not expreflcd, but underftood : Get wealth and place, if poffible with grace, If not by any means get wealth and place. Here it appears evidently, that the words any meansy which are the moft emphatical, are directly oppofed to the means underftood by the word grace,... | |
 | 1809 - 572 sider
...that the disjunctive conjunction, or, by which the antithesis is connected, means one of the thmgs exclusively of the other. The same may be observed...and place, if possible, with grace : If not, by any meant, get wealth and place. Here it appears evidently, that the words any means, which are the most... | |
 | John Mason - 1807 - 274 sider
...the satyrist. -Rem, facias rem, litxte, si possis, si non, quocunque modo rein. Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace, If not, by any means get wealth and place. HoR. POPE. In these lines the emphatical words are accented; and which they are the sense will always... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 sider
...hest ? who whispers, " Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate ; Getplace and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place." For what ? to have a box where eunuchs sing, 10* And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or he who hids... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 sider
...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 ennnchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king : Or he, who... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 sider
...best r 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 siup, And foremost in the circle eye a king : Or he, who hids... | |
 | 1809 - 402 sider
...who whispers, " Be hut great, " With praise or infamy, leave that to fale; !' 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 si-.ijf, And foremost in the circle eye a King— Or he, who... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...who whispers, "Be but great, " With praise or infamy, leave that to fate; " Get Place and Wealt.i, these great points she leads the commonweal: And if disputes of empir :" For what? "to have a box \thereEunuchssing, And foremost in the circle eye a King— Or he, who... | |
 | David Evans Macdonnel - 1809 - 404 sider
...the poet into the mouth of a corrupt 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. Rem in re. Law Lat. — " In the act of coition." Renovato nomine. Lat. — " By a revived name."-—... | |
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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~ 
