 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pagina’s
...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, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it [Exit. SEMPRONIUS, solus. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire ! Ambitiously sententious !... | |
 | 1864 - 332 pagina’s
...courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouso up all that's Roman in 'cm. Tia not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' [A'.ríí Sem. Curse on the stripling I How he apea his sire: Is well dispos'd to mischief. Cato has... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pagina’s
...venture, nothing have/ — and a deep chord in every heart must Vibrate to the Shakespearian motto — ' 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; but we'll do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it.' W Wo live in a world still glorious in some respects, bnt in which the infant suffers before it can... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 464 pagina’s
...OF STRIKING BUSINESS ADVENTURES, VICISSITUDES, EXPLOITS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS, BOTH SERIOUS AND COMICAL. 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.— ABDISOH'S " CATO." In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to BOW and reap at once ;... | |
 | HENRY M. FIELD - 1866 - 330 pagina’s
...jof % fepfriiwn jof 1805. BY HENRY M. FIELD. 'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it. ADDISON'S NEW-YORK: 1 PUBLISHED. BUT PRINTED ONLY TOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. 1 866, PEEFAOE. MANKIND... | |
 | 1866 - 320 pagina’s
...celebrated soliloquy is given here at length, as so many portions of it are constantly quoted. 'T is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. Act i. Scene 2. Better to die ten thousand thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. Act t. Scene 4. Beauty... | |
 | E. R. Babington - 1867 - 124 pagina’s
...stillness Overwhelmed me like a tide." 6 " Now God and St. strike for the good cause of Spain !" 7 " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." 8 " Father and mother ! — yes, and brother dear." vin. The Heroes of Modern Novelists. 1 The mind... | |
 | William Blake Atkinson - 1867 - 58 pagina’s
...been in existence upwards of twenty years. 11. — " That though we cannot approbation command," &o. " 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; "But we'll do more, Sempronius,— we'll deserve it." Addison's Cato. 12.— "The thriving Institute." The Wallingford Mechanics' Institute. 13. — " Then... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1868 - 314 pagina’s
...legend — " p?e fileto fottj) ftta founts, ant tijeg Jfate of Sir girfcarir «Sranbilk— off jflons. " Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." CATO. ' was the last day of August, i.59i. At anchor off Flores, one of the westerly islands of the... | |
 | Rector - 1868 - 302 pagina’s
...say, who will be the next successful candidate ?" In a mock heroic style the Captain said, " It is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. " And he drew himself up, and curled his moustache, and looked ready for a start somewhere, as he strode... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
