 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1855 - 620 pages
...also huzzaed ; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words — " WT1en 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. Cтeper. When viee prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Addison. And here and there some stern, high patriot stood, Who eould not get the plaee for whieh he... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pages
...command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it — or that other balm for hurt minds, When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. But if " Cato" only just manages to keep alive, and has long been thought by many to be in a poor way,... | |
 | John Gay - Fables, English - 1857 - 302 pages
...and wit : With all his turns, and shifts, and tricks, He's docile, and at nothing sticks : (1) When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. — ADDISOW. Then with his neighbours one so free At all times will connive at me." The Hawk had due... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...The careful devil is still at hand with means." DRYDEN. Absalom and Aeliitophel, Pt. I., line 79. '4 When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." ADDISON. Cato (Cato), Act IV., Sc. IV. " (For) when was public virtue to be found When private was... | |
 | Wilhelm Tobias - Historians - 1901 - 502 pages
...möglich, dass sie zu meiner Lebens Zeit nicht mehr kommt, u. im letzten Fall sage ich mit Addison im Cato: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. -Summa Summarum: Mit dem ersten Strahl der Möglichkeit, dass ich in Berlin wirksam seyn kann, fahre... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 264 pages
...House of Commons. P. 42, 11. 4-6. The same sentiment was afterward expressed by Addison in his Cato : " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is the private station." P. 42, 1. 10. " Writers from their fear of contradicting the obsolete and absurd... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Humans 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... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...'ve undone his country. Sc. 4. What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country ! ibid. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.1 ibid. It must be so, — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...'ve undone his country. Sc. 4. What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country ! ibid. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.1 /j,y It must be so, — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this... | |
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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. 
