 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1858 - 634 páginas
...boldly face impending danger and be stimulated onward by the noble sentiment expressed by Gate's son : " Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it." We are assured by sacred proverb, that " God helps those who help themselves." Let us show to the world... | |
 | 1859 - 836 páginas
...of war, I'll animate the soldiers' drooping courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life; III thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try...in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Scmpronius ; we'll deserve it [Exit. Se m . Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire! Ambitiously... | |
 | 1859 - 828 páginas
...contempt of life; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that 's Roman in them. 'Tis not in mortals to command success,...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... | |
 | 1860 - 894 páginas
...circumstances, proved themselves far greater in adversity than they had ever done in prosperity — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it ! " The ladies plaited straw for their own bonnets, seated on the grass ; while the princes read aloud... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1861 - 312 páginas
...circumstances, proved themselves far greater in adversity than they had ever done in prosperity : — " "Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it !" The ladies plaited straw for their own bonnets, seated on the grass, while the princes read aloud... | |
 | 1862 - 456 páginas
...simplified, while the useful working power was increased. They feel with Addison's Cato that — " It is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." §urnle£ Coal-Jfblb, BY EDWARD HULL, BA, FGS, Of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. THE description... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 páginas
...terse line, " To point a moral or adorn a tale ; " Addison's passage, so often given to Shakespeare, " 'Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it;" Comical old Dogberry, with his " not the men he took them for; " Spenser's line so often quoted, and... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this ? SUCCESS.— TIS not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it. ADDISON. — Cato, Act I. Scene 1. And on a love-book pray for my nuccess. SHAESPERE. — Two Gentlemen... | |
 | Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1863 - 506 páginas
...to parliament. All men seem to have been actuated by the spirit of one of Shakespeare's heroes — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." the exhibition of some point of doctrine, or of Christian experience. Let each one of us endeavour... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 páginas
...keep their ground as habitual quotations, eg : — • ' ... big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.' ' 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' ' Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.' ' I think the Romans call it Stoicism.' ' My voice is still... | |
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I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
