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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. "
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D - Page 64
by JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...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 ; 220 NOTES. " Et si leur sang tout pur, aiusi que leur noblesse, Est passe jusqu'a vous de Lucrece...
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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...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 ; 220 " Et si leur sang tout pur, ainsi que leur noblesse, Est passe jusqu'a vous de Lucrece en Lucrece."...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...; onward still he goes ; Yet ne'er looks forward, farther than his nose. No less alike the politic and wise ; All sly slow things with circumspective...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...Howards. 29 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...goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. 30 No less alike the politic and wise; All sly-slow things, with circumspective eyes: Men in their...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Howards. Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies: " Where, but among the heroes and the wise ?" en's whole foundations to their centre nod, And nature...? Vile worm! — oh, madness! pride! impiety! What No less alike the politic and wise: All sly slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...the wise !" troes ire much the same, the point's agreed, om Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 220 tie whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! pot one looks backward, onward still he goes, let ne'er looks forward further than his nose. Xc le?s...
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An Historical Inquiry Into the Principal Circumstances and Events Relative ...

Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 pages
...the authors of their own celebrity, he remarked, " I am neither better nor worse than Other men : " ' Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.* " We assent to the justice of the remark, — not so the Editor. With him, Napoleon was not only infamous,...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...Look next on greatness ; say where greatness lies "'. " Where, but among the heroes and thp wise !" Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 220 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...priest : Thy pride as much despise all other pride As Christ Church once all colleges beside. Warburton. Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 220 COMMENTARY. bustle, if they want virtue, effect only this, that the one proves himself a fool,...
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Essay on Man, Epistles I.-IV.

Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
...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 tKfe Swede; 220 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind...
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