 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 str.
...same with both,— aw utter detestation of deceit. Or as the latter again, and more elegantly has it ' A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod : An honest man's the noblest work of God.' B. Ther. O' the other side, the policy of those crafty swearing rascals. In this, they were the... | |
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 str.
...shine, Or on the Ruhicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief sa rod; .An honest man 's the noblest work of God. Fame, but from death a villain's...can save., As justice tears his body from the grave, When ,what t* oblivion better were consign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 str.
...as a Caesar dead; Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; • When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 str.
...as a Caesar dead ; Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod • An honest...work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can -a\ < . As Justice tears his body from the grave ; When what i ' oblivion better were resign 'd, Is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 str.
...Caesar dead ; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, 245 Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod : An honest man's...resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart ; One self-approving... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 str.
...as a Ciesar dead ; Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod : An honest man's...death a villain's name can save, As Justice tears Iiis body from the grave ; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 254 str.
...sur le Rubicon , et l'autre sur le Rhin , A Wit's a feather , and a Chief's a rod ; An honest Man 's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's...can save , As Justice tears his body from the grave ; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd , Is hung on high , to poison half mankind. All fame is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 str.
...on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest Man's the noble work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As Justice tears his body from the grave ; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 str.
...that, in the followingJines, Pope wrote the first for the sake of the second ? " A oil's a fr.it IHT, and a chief a rod ; " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Were the first of these lines, or a line equally unmeaning, placed last, the couplet would have... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 str.
...living, as a Caesar dead; Alike or when or where, they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's...can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; When what to' oblivion better were resign'd Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign... | |
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Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One... 
