 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 lehte
...stare, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still for war." " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Not to mention — " The woman who deliberates is lost." And the eternal — " Plato, thou reasonest... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 lehte
...stations of the world. Then is the period when the indignant lines of the poet are indeed applicable — When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." 88. That the spirit of freedom was at no period the ruling passion of the French Eevolution has been... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 lehte
...Sabine field. Where the great Censor toil'd with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blest In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retired, pray for the peace of Home : Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1855 - 494 lehte
...hero of the hour, and when once, on being present at the representation of " Cato," * the words — When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station, — were received with loud huzzas, the prince joined in the applause, to show how he appreciated,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1855 - 500 lehte
...hero of the hour, and when once, on being present at the representation of " Cato," * the words — When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station, — were received with loud huzzas, the Prince joined in the applause, to show how he appreciated,... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1855 - 620 lehte
...also huzzaed ; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words — " WT1en vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station" — there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the Prince... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 lehte
...dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. Cтeper. When viee prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Addison. And here and there some stern, high patriot stood, Who eould not get the plaee for whieh he... | |
 | 1856 - 522 lehte
...command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it — or that other balm for hurt minds, When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. But if " Cato" only just manages to keep alive, and has long been thought by many to be in a poor way,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1856 - 420 lehte
...our parental seat, the Sabirie field, Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands And all oar frugal ancestors were blessed In humble virtues and a rural life. There live retired ; content thyself to be Obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of... | |
 | sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 lehte
...Sabine field, Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blest In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retired...bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' " This passage, no doubt, referred to some circumstances in z 2 Mr. Brooke's life. — I was charmed... | |
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
