| John Bell - 1791 - 292 pagini
...once to serve our country I —Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends ? I should have blush'd if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourish'd in a civil war. — Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it. Jub. Was... | |
| John Gay - 1796 - 284 pagini
...DAW his room supply'd. This bird, says he, for bus'ness fit, Hath both sagacity and wit. *...... When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. AdtStm. VOL. II. C With all his turns, and shifts, and tricks, He's docile, and at nothing sticks :... | |
| John Bell - 1797 - 462 pagini
...to serve our country I — Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends, f I should have blush'd if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourish'd in a civil war. — Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it. Jub. Was... | |
| 1797 - 462 pagini
...to serve our country I — Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends ? I should have blush'd if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourish'd in a civil war. — Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it. Jub. Was... | |
| Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 452 pagini
...to serve our country I sadness on your brows, my friends j j 1 76 CATo. AS IV. I should have blush'd if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourish'd in a civil war. — Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it. Jub. Was... | |
| Parliament proc - 1802 - 598 pagini
...administration, by repeating a passage^ extremely applicable to them> from the tragedy ofCatoi ™ When vice prevails), and impious 'men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." The House resolved itself into a committee on the enquiry into the management of Greenwich Hospital.... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pagini
...national complaint: it is a question between the member and his constituents. — — — — " When impious men bear sway, " The post of honour is a private station." The address to the electors of Westminster is not merely a very beautiful composition, but is one of... | |
| 1804 - 512 pagini
...rural life. There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome, Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. • C 2 • . Prendi da me consiglio, e ti ricovra Per tempo di Sabino, a.' patri campi, Che il gran... | |
| British drama - 1804 - 946 pagini
...life ; There live retired, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Por. I hope my father di№S not recommend A life to Portius, that he scorns himself? Cato. Farewell,... | |
| 1804 - 510 pagini
...life ; There live retired, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius, that he scorns himself? Cato. Farewell,... | |
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