 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pàgines
...Dryden. Content is wealth, the riches of the mind ; And happy he who can that treasure find. Dryden. Content thyself to be obscurely good : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, Ihe post of honour is a private station. Addison, Cato, iv. The remnant of his days he safely past,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pàgines
...to withdraw, betimes, To our paternal seat, the Sabine field, Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blessed...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pàgines
...worth a whole eternity in bondage. Act\\. Sc. I. The woman that deliberates is lost. Act iv. Sc. I. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Act iv. Si: 4. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 502 pàgines
...thee to retreat betimes To thy paternal seat, the Sabine field. Where the great Censor tolled with Ы* own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blessed...Rome: Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevail«, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Por. I hope my father... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 480 pàgines
...thee to retreat betimes To thy paternal seat, the Sabine field, Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were blessed...peace of Rome: Content thyself to be obscurely good. patience; ACT V, Sc. II. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 490 pàgines
...Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were hlessed In humhle virtues, and a rural life. There live retired, pray for the peace of Rome: Content thyself to he ohscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men hear sway, The post of honor is a private station.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 pàgines
...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, pray for the peace of Rome : 140 Content thy self to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post... | |
 | Samuel Jones Gee - 1915 - 428 pàgines
...all certain that he would not have agreed with the lines which Addison puts into the mouth of Cato : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. As to f emininism his first thought, when confronted with the idea, was to follow the advice of Gamaliel.... | |
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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. 
