 | John Watts De Peyster - 1855 - 396 ページ
...bottom, insert 'This quotation was made from memory. It is from ADDISON'S 'Co/a,' and should read : " 'Tis not In mortals to command success, But we'll do more, SEMPRONIUS, we'll deserve it." Page 216. Text, 13th line, for 'STEHHEN,' read 'STEPHEN.' Page 220. " 2d line, for 'conflict,' read... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 ページ
...— and newspaper polemics the avowal My voice is still for war ; and baffled struggle« the solatium 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it— or that other balm for hurt minds, When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour... | |
 | 1856 - 522 ページ
...and newspaper polemics the avowal My voice is still for war ; and baffled stragglers the solatium "Ks not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it — or that other balm for hurt minds, When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 484 ページ
...Addison. " — While the fathers of the senate meet In close debate — With love of freedom — I 'l1 thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's British in them." THE OLD WHIG. No. 2. THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1719. WITH BEMABKS UPON THE PLEBEIAN. —... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1858 - 634 ページ
...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 - 828 ページ
...events of war, I'll animate the soldiers' drooping courage With love of freedom, and 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, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll... | |
 | 1860 - 894 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But well do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
