 | 1796 - 500 pages
...ico 7 Who counsels 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 Mason - 1807 - 274 pages
...instance those words of 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 pages
...Who counsels 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, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...Poitiers ? Who counsels 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Poitiers ? 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 ennnchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king : Or he, who... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...Poitiers? Who counsels best! 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... | |
 | David Evans Macdonnel - 1809 - 404 pages
...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."-—... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...? 'Who counsels best ? who whispers, " Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to Fate ; Oet place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means, get wealth and place." For whal ? to have a * box whore eunuchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or * he, who... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...author ; where one branch of the antithesis is not expressed but understood : Get wealth and place, if possible with grace, If not, by any means get wealth and place. Here it appears evidently, that the words any means, which are the most emphatical, are directly opposed... | |
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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~ 
