 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 lehte
...And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd 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 ! * Farewell, my friends ! If there be any of you Who dare not trust the... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 486 lehte
...occasions, but was huzzaed ; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station" — there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the Prince... | |
 | John Britton - 1848 - 168 lehte
...vengeance only on the virtuous. To yourselves therefore I consign you. Enjoy your own Pandemonium — " ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' "* The impassioned and courageous speaker immediately left the house. This extract from a lengthened... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 448 lehte
...occasions, but was huz/aed; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words—" When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station"—there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 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 ; pray for the peace of Bowie , Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 lehte
...Hardwicke's Narrative." at the play of "Cato" the audience marked with noisy demonstration the passage — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." the Prince publicly joined in the applause. His Royal Highness refrained from censuring his father,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 lehte
...applause — and when at the play of "Cato" the audience marked with noisy demonstration the passage — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station." the Prince publicly joined in the applause. His Royal Highness refrained from censuring his father,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 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...vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. For. I hope my father docs not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 lehte
...stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still for war." " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station." Not to mention — " The woman who deliberates is lost." And the eternal — " Plato, thou reasonest... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 lehte
...IMPIETY. To keep that oath were more impiety, Than Jephtha's, when he sacrificed his daughter. Khakspere. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Addison. The Eternal reigns in all through boundless space; Unwise! who first designed him form or... | |
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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. 
