 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 496 lehte
...oflife; I'll tbnnder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse np all that's Roman in them. Tis not in mortals to command success. But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. (Eiit. Sent. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire ! Ambitious!/ sententious—But I wonder... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 lehte
...events of war, I'll animate the soldiers' drooping courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause,...success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Exit. Sem. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious ! — But I wonder... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 360 lehte
...eventu facto, notandafrutat. (Or. Ep. Her. ii. 86.) Aftd our Addison, in his Cato, makes Portius say : 'Tis not in mortals to command success : But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. (i. 2.) Scandia was the naval arsenal of Cythera, (Pausan. iii. 23.) and Mende a city of Thrace, colonised... | |
 | Innes Hoole - 1821 - 688 lehte
...agreeable to-night ; we took uncommon at Westbrook's ! but let us be devilish varmint to-night, I say." " Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it ;' and with this quotation of Stanley, they were in the vicinity of the ladies. Mary's eyes sparkled... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 lehte
...manage by a just foresight, Success is prudence, and possession right. Higgon's Generous Conqueror. 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. Addison's Cato. .y£v . It is success that colours all in life : Success makes fools admir'd, makes... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 458 lehte
...life ; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause. And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. "Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more* Sempronius, we'll deserve k. [Exit. Kern. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire ! Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder... | |
 | 1825 - 454 lehte
...by disappointment, or frightened by shadows, and he might have said with Addison's Cato, " Tis hot in mortals to command success — But we'll do more Sempronius ; we'll deserve it." A body of Poles, in the service of the Grand Duke, had been disbanded at Lucca ; two of them made their... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 512 lehte
...straight away, (R.) To animate the soldier's drooping courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis...; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Exit, «. Sem. (c.) Curse on the stripling I How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! — But... | |
 | 1826 - 502 lehte
...courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. "fis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Вл-ií, R. Sem. (с.) Curse on the stripling ! How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious ! —... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 930 lehte
...of war, III animate the soldiers' drooping courage \Vitb love of freedom, and contempt of life; 111 thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. Tis not in mortals lo command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. [Exit.... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
