 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 860 lehte
...to retreat betimes To thy paternal seat, the Sabine ficlii. Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blessed...vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. For. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 860 lehte
...the Sabine field. Where the great Censor toiled with ht own hands, And all our frugal ancestors wrn s voice a strange one? Consider, too, when beggars...content 'em. Priu. What wouldst thou beg for? Belv. шеп bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 lehte
...whole eternity in bondage." " What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country ! " " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." As every school boy knows, Cato was one of the Romans who perished in resisting the ambition of Julius... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 lehte
...7 HONOR Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ADDISON — Colo. Act I. Sc. 4. 21 arps of gold ; and while they mused Whispering to each other half in fear, Shrill music reach'd honor is a private station. ADDISON — Cato. Act IV. Sc. 4. 22 The sense of honour is of so fine and... | |
 | Frederick Maynard Bridge - 1922 - 420 lehte
...scene at Drury Lane when the Prince was present at a performance of Addison's Cato. The lines — " When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station," were greeted with a tremendous outburst of applause, in which the Prince joined heartily and bowed... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1911 - 540 lehte
...hurls its vengeance only upon the virtuous. To yourselves I consign you. Enjoy your own pandemonium. ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.'" " I spoke, I believe, with great violence ;" so Barr£ confessed to Chatham, after he had slept, or... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 lehte
...field, 135 Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd to say so. We country persons can have no manner at all. I'm in love with the town, i39 Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men sway, The post of honor... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 lehte
...Unworthy of the blessings of the brave, Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. Table Talk. COWPER. Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Cato, Act iv. St. 4. ADD1SON. THE TYRANT'S PLEA. So spake the Fiend, and... | |
 | Prince Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1911 - 544 lehte
...VIRTUE ! O MY COUNTRY ! " A Thousand secret Terrors rise in my Soul: " How shall I save my Friends — " When Vice prevails, and Impious Men bear Sway, " The Post of Honour is a private Station. O my Countrymen ! wont you believe when you Feel\ [11] What fine Stories were told you about Liberty,... | |
 | 1792 - 560 lehte
...я!ф1 frembe ffî, ^ôfe ober 3<i^un'te »o brr gute unb eble ЗЛапп mit (iuto anèiufcn œuf te : When vice prevails and impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station. Set bem immerwáljrenben SBetfcfeí am Jjofe mug btr^ofmann fein ganseé £eben mit einer ununter«... | |
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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. 
