 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Страниц: 532
...good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. PORTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewel, my friends ! if there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency, Know, there... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Страниц: 638
...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. POHTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewell,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - Страниц: 542
...rural 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. PORTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewel,... | |
 | 1811 - Страниц: 418
...jealousies, heartburnings, anxieties and cabals; and thinking that (as Addison happily expresses it) " when impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station," evaded the royal solicitations, and remained at Ferte Bernard, in Maine, cultivating the favour of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - Страниц: 494
...indeed, dazzle only the vulgar. A stroke of nature is, in my opinion, worth a hundred such thoughts as When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station. Cato is a fine dialogue on liberty, and the lovft of one's country ; but considered as a dramatic performance,... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - Страниц: 496
...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. Par. I hope ray father does not recommend A life to Portius that be scorns himself. Cuto. Farewell,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1817 - Страниц: 710
...lordships, although he did not despair, and although he held in contempt the doctrine of the poet that " When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station ;" (he by no means meant to apply this quotation to his majesty's ministers), he certainly feared that... | |
 | George Holden - 1819 - Страниц: 538
...themselves from the effects of wickedness armed with power. This exposition is proved by verse 28. " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Cato, quoted by Parkhurst. I will not attempt to enumerate the different senses attributed to von by... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - Страниц: 716
...vengeance only upon 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." Mr. Charles Turner then informed the House, that notwithstanding the resolutions they had come to,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - Страниц: 426
...indeed, dazzle only the vulgar. A stroke of nature is, in my opinion, worth a hundred such thoughts, as " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Cato is a fine dialogue on liberty, and the love of one's country ; but considered as a dramatic performance,... | |
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When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
