| Eliot Warburton - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 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,... | |
| Mallet du Pan (M., Jacques) - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...others, whose integrity equalled their sagacity, remembered the fine lines of Addison : VOL. i. o "' When impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station.' "* After this retirement of two of its leaders, the rest of the party merged into the right side, although... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 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... | |
| Stanley Victor Makower - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...an open volume of Addison towards the lady with the following lines marked in pencil : — " Where vice prevails and impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station." " No doubt," said he, when he had allowed the lady time to glance at the couplet, " the world will... | |
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...vice prevails, and impious men bear Through all her works) he must delight in sway* The post of honor is a private station. Par. I hope my father does not...friends! if there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency. Know, there are ships prepared by my command, (Their sails already opening to the... | |
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...Sc. II. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. 1'or. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius...friends! if there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency, Know, there are ships prepared by my command, (Their sails already opening to the... | |
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...ohscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men hear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius...scorns himself. Cato. Farewell, my friends ! if there he any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency, Know, there are ships prepared hy my command,... | |
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...good. When vice prevail«, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius...that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell, my friends 1 if there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency. Know, there are ships prepared by... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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 of honour is a private station. Port. I hope, my father does not recommend A life to Portius, that he scorns himself. 145 Cato. Farewel,... | |
| Samuel Jones Gee - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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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