| 1800 - 322 sivua
...as a Cresar 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's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame but from death a villam's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; When what... | |
| 1803 - 228 sivua
...character, from the sense of his own frailty. An honest man lives not to the world, but to himself. , A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. There are few persons to be found, but what are more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense,... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sivua
...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's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 640 sivua
...place in every Litany. This was evidently the meaning of the word in the time of Pope, who writes— " A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." Speaking of the Spectator and Pope reminds me of a circumstance not irrelevant to the present... | |
| Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 sivua
...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's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame, but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
| Thomas Preston - 1817 - 68 sivua
...with the celebrated Thomas Spence, — an eccentric but hearty and sincere man. I priz'd him, since A Wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. Poor Spence, like myself, had grappled with bad fortune and like me too, stood the tug of adversity... | |
| J. H. Hanshall - 1817 - 756 sivua
...marble — In memory of Sir John Cheeshyre,* who departed this life, on the xv of May, MDCCXXXVIII. Л wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod— An honest man's the noblest work of God. On a similar monument — Near this place lieth the body of Arthur Rawdon, Esq. late of Hallwood,... | |
| Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 sivua
...considered as the support of the rights of the people ; he is an honest man, and Pope tells us that '* A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod ; " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Talking of wit, that is not his lordship's fort, and we would advise him, now that he is become... | |
| 1848 - 396 sivua
...the man. He' is, like Napoleon Bonaparte, the architect of his own fortunes. ZADOK PRATT. " A wit'M a feather, and a chief's a rod. An honest man's the noblest work of God." THE subject of this memoir was born October 30th, 1790, at Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 sivua
...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'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... | |
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