Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Penruddock - Page 84by Robert Plumer Ward - 1839Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 292 pages
...life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome j Content thyself to be obscurely good. H When vice prevails, and impious men 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,... | |
| John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...DAW his room supply'd. This bird, says he, for bus'ness fit, Hath both sagacity and wit. *...... When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. AdtStm. VOL. II. C With all his turns, and shifts, and tricks, He's docile, and at nothing sticks :... | |
| John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be obscurely good. H When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
| English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be obscurely good. H When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Per. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. Goto. Farewell,... | |
| Parliament proc - 1802 - 598 pages
...administration, by repeating a passage^ extremely applicable to them> from the tragedy ofCatoi ™ When vice prevails), and impious 'men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." The House resolved itself into a committee on the enquiry into the management of Greenwich Hospital.... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...national complaint: it is a question between the member and his constituents. — — — — " When impious men bear sway, " The post of honour is a private station." The address to the electors of Westminster is not merely a very beautiful composition, but is one of... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...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. ... - , i... | |
| British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...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. Por. I hope my father di№S not recommend A life to Portius, that he scorns himself? Cato. Farewell,... | |
| 1804 - 512 pages
...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. • C 2 • . Prendi da me consiglio, e ti ricovra Per tempo di Sabino, a.' patri campi, Che il gran... | |
| English drama - 1804 - 510 pages
...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. Por. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius, that he scorns himself? Cato. Farewell,... | |
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