| George Farquhar - 1808 - 338 pągines
...And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues, and a rural life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be...bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. For. I hope my father does not recommend A lite to Portius that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pągines
...and all our frugal ancestors were bless'd in humble virtues, and a rural life; there live retir'cl, pray for the peace of Rome; content thyself to be...bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. Par. I hope my father does not recommend a life to Portius, that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pągines
...and all our frugal ancestors were bless'd in humble virtues, and a rural life; there live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome; content thyself to be...When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the postof honour is a private station. Par. I hope my father does not recommend a life to Portius, that... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 pągines
...Sabine field, Where the great Censor toil'd with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blest In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retired,...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,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 540 pągines
...Sabine field, Where the great Censor toil'd with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blest In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retired,...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,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 pągines
...hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blest In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome : Content thyself to be...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 - 1811 - 354 pągines
...hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blest In humble virtues, and a rural life. There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome : Content thyself to be...bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. FORTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewell,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pągines
...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 - 496 pągines
...And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd In huiuhle virtues, and a rural life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome; Content thyself to be...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 - 710 pągines
...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... | |
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