 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - Страниц: 708
...How strongly does that admirable line in the tragedy of Cato come to our minds, when he says, 1 "I'is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it.' " After having been on this occasion not so fortunate as to have been of any use under your command,... | |
 | Edward Hazen Parker - 1851 - Страниц: 694
...as Christians, the duties of your high vocation ; ever stimulated by the sentiment of the poet — ' Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." " STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. We would call the attention of our subscribers to the notice of the annual... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - Страниц: 430
...a young periodical to merit public approbation, and be able to say, in the language of the poet, " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." I append a list of the foreign publications through which we (staff and all) industriously waded, so... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - Страниц: 332
...keep their ground u 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." Meanwhile he was writing political papers and advancing in the political profession. He went Secretary... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - Страниц: 600
...of this number are the following: "The woman who deliberates Is lost." "Plant daggers in my heart." "Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." "The pale unripen'd beauties of the north." "'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 836
...I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. •Tie not in mortals to command success, But 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... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1855 - Страниц: 396
...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 - Страниц: 520
...— 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 - Страниц: 522
...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... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1858 - Страниц: 634
...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... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
