 | 1860 - 894 lehte
...circumstances, proved themselves far greater in adversity than they had ever done in prosperity — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it ! " The ladies plaited straw for their own bonnets, seated on the grass ; while the princes read aloud... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1861 - 312 lehte
...circumstances, proved themselves far greater in adversity than they had ever done in prosperity : — " "Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it !" The ladies plaited straw for their own bonnets, seated on the grass, while the princes read aloud... | |
 | 1862 - 456 lehte
...simplified, while the useful working power was increased. They feel with Addison's Cato that — " It is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." §urnle£ Coal-Jfblb, BY EDWARD HULL, BA, FGS, Of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. THE description... | |
 | Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1863 - 506 lehte
...to parliament. All men seem to have been actuated by the spirit of one of Shakespeare's heroes — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." the exhibition of some point of doctrine, or of Christian experience. Let each one of us endeavour... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 lehte
...bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this ? SUCCESS.— TIS not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it. ADDISON. — Cato, Act I. Scene 1. And on a love-book pray for my nuccess. SHAESPERE. — Two Gentlemen... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 lehte
...terse line, " To point a moral or adorn a tale ; " Addison's passage, so often given to Shakespeare, " 'Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it;" Comical old Dogberry, with his " not the men he took them for; " Spenser's line so often quoted, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 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, 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 it [Exit.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 lehte
...keep their ground as habitual quotations, eg : — • ' ... big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.' ' 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' ' Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.' ' I think the Romans call it Stoicism.' ' My voice is still... | |
 | 1864 - 332 lehte
...courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouso up all that's Roman in 'cm. Tia not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' [A'.ríí Sem. Curse on the stripling I How he apea his sire: Is well dispos'd to mischief. Cato has... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 464 lehte
...OF STRIKING BUSINESS ADVENTURES, VICISSITUDES, EXPLOITS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS, BOTH SERIOUS AND COMICAL. 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.— ABDISOH'S " CATO." In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to BOW and reap at once ;... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
