 Twill never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty: And let me perish,...  The British drama - Page 346by British drama - 1804Full view - About this book
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 lehte
...when the rights of the underftanding arc fufficiently fecured. Thus, in that noble fentiment of Cato : A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage : To pronounce this paflage with the greateft force, we ought to lay the emphafis with the falling... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 lehte
...Force us to yield. 'Twill never be too late To sue for chains and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time? No, let us draw her term...Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ENTER MARCUS. MARCUS. Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gates, Lodg'd on my post, a herald is arrived From Caesar's... | |
 | 1804 - 510 lehte
...I orce us to yield. Twill never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ; No, let us draw her term...Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS. Лlare. Fathers, this moment, as I watched the gate, ' . . . Lodged on my post, a herald is arrived... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 954 lehte
...Force us to yield. Twill never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ; No, let us draw her term...liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter M.iucfs. Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watched the gate, Lodged on my post, a herald is arrived... | |
 | 1804 - 516 lehte
...never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her tone ; No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full...still one day's liberty : And let me perish, but in Cato'e judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity' in bondage. Enter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 lehte
...out their whole lives, tiu there 's no more future left before 'em. L'Et'roKgt. Why should Romefall a moment ere her time '. No, let us draw her term of freedom out IB its full length, and if in it to the last. AdJison. 4. To form by degrees ; to draw out tediously.... | |
 | 1806 - 408 lehte
...conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ?! No, let us draw her^term of freedom oiit To its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall...virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. DESCRIPTION cf a HURRICANE. (ADDISON.) So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1807 - 312 lehte
...sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw our term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it...virtuous liberty, Is worth, a whole eternity in bondage. EXTRACT 268 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR. EXTRACT FROM AN ORATION, AT BOSTON, JULY 4, 1794, IN COMMEMORATION... | |
 | George Farquhar - 1808 - 338 lehte
...Force us to yield. 'Twill never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term...bondage. Enter MARCUS, Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watch 'd the gate, Lodg'd on my post, a herald is arriv'd 3 From Caesar's camp, and with him comes... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 446 lehte
...Force us to yield. 'Twill never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term...one day's liberty: And let me perish, but, in Cato's j udgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS,... | |
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