 | 1847 - 540 Seiten
...virtue, hath quite lost Lustre and reputation, and is made A mercenary purchase. MASSINGER. 2. When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. 3. The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ; at his... | |
 | 1847 - 526 Seiten
...virtue, hath quite lost Lustre and reputation, and is made A mercenary purchase. MASSINGER. 2. When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. 3. The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ; at his... | |
 | John Britton - 1848 - 168 Seiten
...vengeance only on the virtuous. To yourselves therefore I consign you. Enjoy your own Pandemonium — " ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' "* The impassioned and courageous speaker immediately left the house. This extract from a lengthened... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 486 Seiten
...occasions, but was huzzaed ; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station" — there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the Prince... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 448 Seiten
...occasions, but was huz/aed; and in that part of the play (which was Cato) where Cato says these words—" When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station"—there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 624 Seiten
...; and in that part of the play (which was Gate) where Cato says these words—" When vice prevail-, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station" — there was another loud huzza, with a great clap, in the latter part of which applause the Prince... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 Seiten
...retired from all participation in the disgraceful proceedings that he was unable to resist. " When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Of the manner in which his later days were past, we can only judge from secondary evidence. His Executors'... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 620 Seiten
...retired from all participation in the disgraceful proceedings that he was unable to resist. " When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." And that station he was contented to occupy until the hour of his death. Of the manner in which his... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 Seiten
...applause — and when at the play of "Cato" the audience marked with noisy demonstration the passage — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station." the Prince publicly joined in the applause. His Royal Highness refrained from censuring his father,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 Seiten
...Hardwicke's Narrative." at the play of "Cato" the audience marked with noisy demonstration the passage — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." the Prince publicly joined in the applause. His Royal Highness refrained from censuring his father,... | |
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When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
