 Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote the Prologue, and Garth the Epilogue. It is worth noticing how many things in Cato keep their ground as habitual quotations, e. g.:— " .... big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome." " 'Tis...  Thackeray's Lectures: The English Humorists. The Four Georges - Stran 75avtor: William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 449 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 strani
...shall applaud him most.' "Cato" ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote the Prolog! and Garth the Epilogue. It is worth noticing how many things in "Cato" keep their ground as habitu quotations,e, g. :— frr/i. ii * * * tig with the fate Of Cato and of Rome." ** 'Tis not in... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 542 strani
...support you ; getting the confidence of your patrons, and being resolved to keep it by deserving it. " 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; but we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it." Believe me, that if you deserve it, you will get it. " Labour and wait ! " aye, patiently,... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 strani
...support you; getting the confidence of yonr patrons, and being resolved to keep it by deserving it. " 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; but we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it." Believe me, that if you deserve it, you will get it. " Labour and wait! " aye, patiently,... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 strani
...steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God, trusting in Eternal Love. S. FRANCIS DE SALES. 'Tis not in mortals to command success : But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. A virtuous and industrious and good wife. Faithful, forgiving, full of charity ; LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 596 strani
...I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. "Pis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. [Exit. SEMPRONTUS, solus. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire ? Ambitiously sententious... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 714 strani
...To merit by good actions or qualities In general; to be worthy of, on account of excellencs. ‘Tin not in mortals to command success; But well do more, Sempronius; well descrzvit. Addtsan. 4. To be worthy of, in a bad sense; to merit by an evil act; as, to deserve blame... | |
 | F L. Clarke - 1884 - 278 strani
...stock quotations from Hamlet that meet one everywhere. It is not always known that such lines as : " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." " Blesses her stars, and calls it luxury." " I think the Romans call it stoicism." " When... | |
 | 1884 - 588 strani
...brethren throughout the Union. He worked in the very spirit so beautifully portrayed by Addison: " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve jt." We submit in its fullness this comprehensive, clear, unmistakable verdict. It fully sustains... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1884 - 154 strani
...some boats that are not steer'd.' So, let us follow Addison's wise resolve, •when he declares :— 4 Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.' Sir Walter Scott, writing to a youth who had newly obtained a situation, gave him this... | |
 | 1891 - 400 strani
...schemes of mice and men Gang aft agley And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. —Burns. Tis not in mortals to command success But we'll do more Sempronius: we'll deserve it.—Addison. No good book or good thing of any sort shows face at first. —Carfyle. Many... | |
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