 | Adam Ferguson - 1980 - 368 pages
...satire referred, had well nigh saved his country from the ruin with which it was at last overwhelmed. Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede, is a distich, in which another poet of beautiful talents, has attempted to depreciate a name, to which,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pages
...Disputes 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...their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind! cf. ibid., 1. U. 160, and Henry Fielding Jonathan Wild, 1. 3; see also 'New Anecdotes of Alexander... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 1972 - 598 pages
...two HEROES, one meets with, in early and remote history. For as our great English poet well observes, "Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From...lives, to find, Or make an enemy of all mankind." To shew the reader how easily this feat may be performed, I will take any two of our Monarchs, that... | |
 | Kaiman Lee - 2003 - 120 pages
...loin que le bout de son nez. !! ln 1734, Alexander Pope used a similar expression in his Essay on Man: "Onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose." » lf you can't see beyond the end of your nose, you can't be a visionary. » Tom would stop complaining... | |
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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. 
