 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...themselves with devastating the earth purely for their own selfish gratification. The word was — "Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede." 1 FROM THE CAMBRIDGE LECTURE ROOMS: BONAPART But in this generation the very opposite view has had... | |
 | 1910 - 498 pages
...Howards Lqok 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...their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind I Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose. No less... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...done By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. 2151 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. 1. Line 638. Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. 2152 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 219. I know thee for a man of many thoughts, And deeds of... | |
 | Jasper Mauduit - 1918 - 954 pages
...conceived that his passage through could be secured without bloodshed. It has been said, " Heroes are all the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's Madman to the Swede." The Warrior Philanthropist. But though in every sense of the word a soldier, Stewart, throughout his entire... | |
 | Matthew Albert Bayfield - 1919 - 140 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...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. In the hands of Swinburne, who employed the couplet for his Tristram of Lyonesse,... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 570 pages
...sang tout pur, ainsi que leur noblesse, A passe jusqu'a vous de Lucrece en Lucrece. Lines 219-222 : Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From...their lives to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! cannot be independent of those strikingly similar lines on military ambition (where identically the... | |
 | Aurélien Digeon - 1925 - 282 pages
...edition in 1740 and the resum£ published in 1734 was reprinted in 1739 and 1750. * Pope wrote : " Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From...madman to the Swede The whole strange purpose of their life to find Or make an enemy of all mankind." (Essay on Man, IV, 217-23). Voltaire, to bring himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...and the Wise? Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; &o The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find...backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose. No less alike the Politic and Wise ; 22% All sly slow things with circumspective... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 310 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 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 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 The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks... | |
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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. 
