 What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country ! Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends ? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure and flourished in a civil war.  The Romance of Jewish History - Page 134by Celia Levetus, Marion Moss - 1840Full view - About this book
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Must give us pause. SHARSPERR. — Ibid. Act IIL Scene 1. (The Soliloquy continued.) See " Whips." What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country. ADDUON.— Cato, Act IV. But shall die like men ; and fall like one of the princes. PSALM LXXXII. Verse... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pages
...of his country. " How beautiful is death when carn'd by virtue ! Who would not bo that youth ? What is it That we can die but once to serve our country ?" So spoke the Roman from the mouth of Cato. So said the father over the dead body of his son. "It... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 pages
...view at leisure The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? What pity...! Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends ? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war. ADDISON. Translate... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...friends, Full in my sight, that I may view at leisure The bloody corpse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death when earned by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? What pity 'tis 22 That we can die but once to save our country ! Why sits that sadness on your brow, my friends?... | |
 | 1866 - 320 pages
...soil, The product of all climes. Act ir. Scene 4. Thanks to the gods ! my boy has done his duty. Ibid. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country l When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.* Act ir.... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1867 - 448 pages
...view at leisure The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth ? — what...serve our country ! Why sits this sadness on your brow, my friends? 1 should have blush'd if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourish'd in a civil... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...when the public safety is in question, My zeal flows warm and eager from my tongue. Rowe, J. Shore. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country ! Addison. Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...friends, Full in my sight ; that I may view at leisure The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue ! Who...it That we can die but once to serve our country! 2. Why sits this sadness on your brow, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's ' house had stood... | |
 | 1869 - 338 pages
...those glorious wounds. How beautiful ie death, when earn'd by virtue ! Who would not be that yuuth? What pity is it That we can die but once, to serve our country! Why eits this sadness on your brows mv friends? " ' ' I should ha vo blush'd, if Cato's house had steed... | |
 | Virgil - 1871 - 376 pages
...friends, Full in my sight, that I may view at leisure The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue ! Who...is it That we can die but once to serve our country ?" Addison, Caffl, iv. ?31. " From yonder realms of empyrean day iursts on my ear th' indignant lay... | |
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