 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.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 1661881Full view - About this book
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1765 - 498 pages
...HEROES, one meets with, in early and remote hiftory. For as our great englifh poet well obferves, " HEROES ARE MUCH THE SAME, the point's agreed, * From Macedonia's madman to the Swede -, '* The whole ftrange purpofe of their lives, to find, *' Or make an enemy of all mankind. To mew... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...boldly for the savage, and I, perhaps for that reason, sided with the citizen.' Piozzi Letters, 1.115. ' Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; The whole strange purpose of their lives to find, Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 426 pages
...the savage mine I Yes: truly glorious, only great is he, Who conquers, or who bleeds for liberty. " Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, " From Macedonia's madman to the Swede." Like baleful comets flaming in the skies, At destin'd times th' appointed scourges rise ; Awhile in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 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 ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 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 Macedonia's madman to the Swede: The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...Howards. Look next on Greatness ; say where greatness lies I " Where but among the heroes and the wise I" Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 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 : The whole strange purpose of the.ir lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Praeterit, exanimatque indignos, inqtie merentes.* He has turned the insult into a magnificent image. 50. Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. The * Lib. ii. ver. 1100. The modern Alexander has been thus characterized by the British Juvenal,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Howards. Look next ou 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 ; The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks... | |
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