 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue t Who would not be that youth ? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country 1 Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends ? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1880 - 352 pages
...bloody c6rse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when eamed by virtue ! AVho would not be that youth ? — what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country ! 8. Why sits this sadness on your brow, my friends ? I sliould have bluslied if Cato's l house had... | |
 | LUDWIG HERRIG - 1881 - 984 pages
...friends, Füll in my sight, that I may view at leisnre The bloody corse, and court those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue ! Who would not be that youth? What pity it is That we can die but once to serve our country. Why sits that sadness on your brows, my friends?... | |
 | ludwig herric - 1881 - 494 pages
...friends, Full in my sight, that I may view at leisure The bloody corse, and court those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity it is That we can die but once to serve our conntry. Why sits that sadness on your brows, my friends?... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 662 pages
...this vein. So it is natural that no echo of him is to be found here, unless it be that the lines, 2 What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! are an interpretation of Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Yet this sentiment is not peculiar to... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 pages
...The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds. How beautiful is death when earned by virtue ! So did not mind you. MRS. MARWOOD. Mr. Mirabell and you ~°lh may think it a thing i countrj- ! Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's house had... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 pages
...by patriots for a century or more. Americans will remember Nathan Hale when they hear Cato saying: What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! Somewhat more aptly English and rational is Cato's noble injunction: Remember, O my friends, the laws,... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 pages
...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...it That we can die but once, to serve our country !— My friends, why sils this sadness on your brows ? I should have blush'd, if Cato's house had stood... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...tragedy, Cato (act IV, scene iv), in which Cato says, when the body of his son is brought before him: "How beautiful is death when earned by virtue. Who...that we can die but once to serve our country!"— George Dudley Seymour, Captain Nathan Hale, Major John Palsgrave Wyllys, A Digressive History, p. 39... | |
 | Alan McNairn - 1997 - 332 pages
...Addison has Cato, while mourning the death of his son Marcus, say: How beautiful is death when earn'd by Virtue! Who would not be that youth? What Pity is it That we can but die once, to serve our country. This passage was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on 7 February... | |
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