 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - Страниц: 400
...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 - Страниц: 486
...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 - Страниц: 168
...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 - Страниц: 448
...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 - Страниц: 292
...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 - Страниц: 574
...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 - Страниц: 582
...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 - Страниц: 300
...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 - Страниц: 332
...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 - Страниц: 772
...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. 
