 | Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 194 pages
...received with shouts of approval: it adorns the end of Act IV., and Cato himself delivers it:— • " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour Is a private station." Let any one fancy this profound axiom admitted as a rule of conduct, and then inquire what the result... | |
 | John Gay - 1842 - 236 pages
...and venting lies: Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,* A mind serene for contemplation: * When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. AA&son. Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine. My Fable read, their merits view,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 pages
...personal observations on the nature 1823.] tare of the government, thought with Addison — , where impious men- bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. The only honorary distinction he ever received was that of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ; and, were... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - German letters - 1844 - 626 pages
...па1игифег 3ug ifl in tneinen 2(ugen mefjr »ert^, aie „fyunbert ©ebanfen roie ber folgenbe: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station; Ьав t|î: Sßo Softer gilt unb Sotterbuben fcerrfíben, ©inb ©Çrenftcllen ein gemeines 3Cmt.... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - German language - 1844 - 626 pages
...пайгифег 3ug ifi in meinen 3íugen mef>r tcett^, Ш „fjunbert ©ebanfen rcie ber fotgenbe : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station; bas tfî: ЯВо 2ûfter gilt unb 2otterbuben ©tnb ©tjrenftellen ein gemetneè TCmt „ßato", fa^rt... | |
 | George Stephens - 1846 - 420 pages
...with a plague to him, would insinuate, that you might contest the representation . . ROLAND. " When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station !" FARMER. Your honoured father, look you now . . . peg ten thousand pardons — put he SIR DAVID.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...virtue, hath quite lost Lustre and reputation, and is made A mercenary purchase. MASSINGER. 2. When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. 3. The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ; at his... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...virtue, hath quite lost Lustre and reputation, and is made A mercenary purchase. MASSINGER. 2. When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. 3. The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ; at his... | |
 | John Britton - Great Britain - 1848 - 168 pages
...vengeance only on 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.' "* The impassioned and courageous speaker immediately left the house. This extract from a lengthened... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 486 pages
...occasions, but was huzzaed ; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station" — there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the Prince... | |
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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. 
