| British theatre - 1830 - 928 páginas
...were bless'il In humble virtues, and a rural life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Horw Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious -men beai sway, The post of honour is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommen« \ life... | |
| British theatre - 1831 - 922 páginas
...\nd all our frugal ancestors were bless'd n humble virtues, and a rural life; ["here live relir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be...bear swa.y» The post of honour is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend \ life to Portius that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
| 1833 - 828 páginas
...life; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content ihvEclf to be obscurely good. When vire prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Por. I ho[H; my father does not recommend A life to i'ortius, that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 páginas
...foresee nip». Will one day make thee great : at Rome, hatafter, And all our frugal ancestor» wore blest In humble virtues and a rural life. There live...bear sway The post of honour is a private station. Portias. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
| 1837 - 706 páginas
...happen in it, but because I feel, with a real patriot, a real poet, and a real lover of mankind, that, ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' By this I do not mean to allude to those who now nominally govern,— who are neither more vicious,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 páginas
...happen in it, but because I feel, with a real patriot, a real poet, and a real lover of mankind, that, ' When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' By this I do not mean to allude to those who now nominally govern,—who are neither more vicious,... | |
| Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough - 1838 - 512 páginas
...should never be weary of applications if I were not afraid of tiring you, but this I cannot forbear. " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." 'Tis pity this is true, and that the innocent must suffer for the guilty. 94> LADY SUNDERLAND. [Oct.... | |
| Sarah Churchill (duchess of Marlborough.) - 1838 - 520 páginas
...should never be weary of applications if I were not afraid of tiring you, but this I cannot forbear. " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." 'Tis pity this is true, and that the innocent must suffer for the guilty. LADY SUNDERLAND TO THE DUCHESS... | |
| Acting drama - 1839 - 936 páginas
...Aud all our frugal ancestors were blesä'd In humble virtues, aud a rural life : There live retir'd: Content thyself to be obscurely good : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour it a private station. N Por. I hope, my father does not recommend A life to Poicius, that he scorns... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 páginas
...and flourish'd in a civil war.' " May I not add, without affectation, from the same author, ' Where vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' " " We might question this sentiment," observed Oldacre, as we returned to the dining-room, " and it... | |
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