 | Plutarch - 1816 - 360 ページ
...eventu facto, notandafrutat. (Or. Ep. Her. ii. 86.) Aftd our Addison, in his Cato, makes Portius say : 'Tis not in mortals to command success : But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. (i. 2.) Scandia was the naval arsenal of Cythera, (Pausan. iii. 23.) and Mende a city of Thrace, colonised... | |
 | Innes Hoole - 1821 - 688 ページ
...agreeable to-night ; we took uncommon at Westbrook's ! but let us be devilish varmint to-night, I say." " Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it ;' and with this quotation of Stanley, they were in the vicinity of the ladies. Mary's eyes sparkled... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 ページ
...manage by a just foresight, Success is prudence, and possession right. Higgon's Generous Conqueror. 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. Addison's Cato. .y£v . It is success that colours all in life : Success makes fools admir'd, makes... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 458 ページ
...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 k. [Exit. Kern. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire ! Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder... | |
 | 1825 - 454 ページ
...by disappointment, or frightened by shadows, and he might have said with Addison's Cato, " Tis hot in mortals to command success — But we'll do more Sempronius ; we'll deserve it." A body of Poles, in the service of the Grand Duke, had been disbanded at Lucca ; two of them made their... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 512 ページ
...straight away, (R.) To animate the soldier's drooping courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis...we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Exit, «. Sem. (c.) Curse on the stripling I How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! — But I wonder.... | |
 | 1826 - 502 ページ
...courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. "fis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Вл-ií, R. Sem. (с.) Curse on the stripling ! How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious ! —... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 930 ページ
...of war, III animate the soldiers' drooping courage \Vitb love of freedom, and contempt of life; 111 thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. Tis not in mortals lo command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. [Exit.... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 926 ページ
...life; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try lo 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. [Exil. Sem. Curse on the slripling! how he apes fais sire! Ambitiously sententious — Bui I wonder... | |
 | British theatre - 1828 - 924 ページ
...their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. Tit not in Tnorl.il- to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. [Exit. San. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire! Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder Old Syphax... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But well do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
