 | 1867 - 336 lehte
...ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues, and a rural life : There live retir'd: Content thyself to bo obscurely good: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is я private station. Por. I hope, my father does not recommend A life to Porcias, that he scorns himself.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 lehte
...Dryden. Content is wealth, the riches of the mind ; And happy he who can that treasure find. Dryden. Content thyself to be obscurely good : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, Ihe post of honour is a private station. Addison, Cato, iv. The remnant of his days he safely past,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 lehte
...And all our frugal ancestors were blessed In humble virtues and a rural life. There live retired : content thyself to be Obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station ! 4. Farewell, my friends! If there be any of you Who dare not trust the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 lehte
...worth a whole eternity in bondage. Act\\. Sc. I. The woman that deliberates is lost. Act iv. Sc. I. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Act iv. Si: 4. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 480 lehte
...field, Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blessed In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retired,...peace of Rome: Content thyself to be obscurely good. patience; ACT V, Sc. II. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 490 lehte
...Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were hlessed In humhle virtues, and a rural life. There live retired, pray for the peace of Rome: Content thyself to he ohscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men hear sway, The post of honor is a private station.... | |
 | Samuel Jones Gee - 1915 - 428 lehte
...all certain that he would not have agreed with the lines which Addison puts into the mouth of Cato : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. As to f emininism his first thought, when confronted with the idea, was to follow the advice of Gamaliel.... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 860 lehte
...ficlii. Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blessed In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retired,...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
...Sabine field. Where the great Censor toiled with ht own hands, And all our frugal ancestors wrn blessed a strange one? Consider, too, when beggars once pretend...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... | |
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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. 
