| Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 446 páginas
...th' events of war, I'll animate the soldiers' drooping courage \Vith love of freedom, and contempt ot life ; I'll thunder in their ears their country's...we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Exit. Sem. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire ! Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder Old Syphax... | |
| George Farquhar - 1808 - 338 páginas
...soldiers' drooping courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life ; I'll thunder in their cars their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's...in them. • Tis not in mortals to command success, Jut we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Exit. Sem. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his... | |
| 1809 - 596 páginas
...spirit j an.J supposes that in ihe solitude of his confinement he may exclaim with the hero of Utica, ' 'Tis not in Mortals to command success } But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' 'Sweden,' we are told, ' has lost duriiigthis war one third of its superficial extent, one fourth of... | |
| 1809 - 420 páginas
...and two sureties in 2501. each. MAN, 212 MANCHESTER THEATRICALS, Or, M'Cready's Misfortunes. •• Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius— we'll deserve it." • - . 'T'HE friends of modest merit will be sorry to hear of the cause of the following address.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, and try to rouze up all that's Roman in them. T is not in mortals to command success: but we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. [Exit. Sent. Curse on this stripling! How he apes his sire! ambitiously sententious! — But I wonder old... | |
| Plutarchus - 1810 - 746 páginas
...Quisquis nli eueiitu facto, rwtanila putat. (Ov And our Addison, in his Cato, makes Portius say: Tis npt in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. but in yielding to the instances of his friends, he met his fate, and fell a victim to barbarian perfidy.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 páginas
...PORTIUS. Well dost thou seem to check my ling'ring here On this important hour— — <I'll strait away, And while the fathers of the senate meet In...cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. 'T is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. [Exit. SEMPRONIUS... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 540 páginas
...expression.— The imagery, too, is in character ; the speaker being a person of the purest virtue, and a Roman. I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. [Exit.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 páginas
...— The imagery, too, is in character ; the speaker being a person of the purest rirtue, and a Romau. I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. [Exit.... | |
| Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 496 páginas
...freedom, and contempt oflife; I'll tbnnder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse np all that's Roman in them. Tis not in mortals to command...success. But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. (Eiit. Sent. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire ! Ambitious!/ sententious—But I wonder... | |
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