 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1831 - 372 pages
...and bite others yet," said Harclai, " and will come to my creed at last; for ' When vice preyails, and impious men be.ar sway, The post of honour is a private station.'" De Vere thought this a good opportunity to open to her his possible scheme (he mentioned it merely... | |
 | British drama - 1833 - 828 pages
...life; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content ihvEclf to be obscurely good. When vire prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Por. I ho[H; my father does not recommend A life to i'ortius, that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 594 pages
...they must console themselves with the suggestion of a true Whig of the old school, that — • when impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." But while we deduce these conclusions from the general principles that have been unbridled — we see,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 596 pages
...they must console themselves with the suggestion of a true Whig of the old school, that — ' when impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' But while we deduce these conclusions from the general principles that have been unbridled — we see,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 586 pages
...they must console themselves with the suggestion of a true Whig of the old school, that — ' when impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' But while we deduce these conclusions from the general principles that have been unbridled — we see,... | |
 | 1836 - 928 pages
...assuredly there is an intellective act. But take any other proposition of a higher order. — " Where impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station." Here is a very complex relation— very complex at least in its conception, on account of the objects... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 pages
...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,... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 706 pages
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 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. Portias. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
 | Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough - Great Britain - 1838 - 512 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
