 | 1837 - 706 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 452 pàgines
...that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so few are offended with it. — Swift. Where vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. — Calo. POET II V. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. " Our conversation a in heaven." I. WHEN life around us gaily... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 318 pàgines
...of Denmark" will be cleansed and purged away ! O that I could at this moment have said, as I felt, " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, " The post of honour is a private station :" but I had to move onwards, and did so. It will naturally be asked, as it often has been, why any... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 pàgines
...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.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, " in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 644 pàgines
...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.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, " in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment... | |
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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. 
