 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
 | United States. Office of Education - 1942 - 678 lehte
...cause, and who wenr upon breasts its stars of the legion of honor. — Edwin, Hubbell Chapin (1868). A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison (1713). ;rty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to ';... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1942 - 694 lehte
...and who wear upon their breasts Its stars of the legion of honor. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1888). A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addixon (1713). Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 lehte
...us to yield. 'T will never be too late To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why should Rome tall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term of...day's liberty : And let me perish, but, in C'ato's judgement, A day, an hour, of virtuous libi rly Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. _/£. Enter JUNIUS.... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 lehte
...after Caesar had forced them to yield, then they might sue for Chains. And let me perish, but in Gate's Judgment, A Day, an Hour of virtuous Liberty, Is worth a whole Eternity in Bondage. (3) After Orders were given for the executing the base Villains who conspired Cato's Death, he thus... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, George A. Rawlyk - 1997 - 296 lehte
...less civic virtue than Cato Uticensis, a statesman of the late Roman Republic: "Shall a heathen say/ - in Cato's judgment, / A day, an hour of virtuous liberty / Is worth a whole eternity of bondage'?" 47 The last four pages of the Letter are taken up with MacGregor 's restatement and rebuttal... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 lehte
...of virtuous freedom. '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...hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.10 Cato's love of virtuous freedom makes all other cares pale by comparison. It enables him... | |
 | Bruce H. Mann - 2002 - 372 lehte
...auspicious day," and a final one to "LIBERTY, Thou Goddess heavenly bright," with the sentiment that "A day, an hour of virtuous Liberty /Is worth a whole eternity in bondage." The imagined procession and the toasts were not Pintard's private musings. He gave them to a printer,... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 2004 - 210 lehte
...essays in the London Journal, and as the hero of Addison's play. In the latter he is made to declare: in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.' Three things are important in this quotation. First, virtue and liberty are linked so as to become... | |
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