...Though this play, as a whole, is forgotten, yet some of its lines are often quoted. For instance : " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll desente it." " A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, la worth a whole eternity of bondage." " The woman...

...us known pleasant dinners over chops and pale ale, and dreary times over champagne and venison. 'Tia not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,— we'll deserve it. A host can but take that for his text. Do you know that grim jest of Grimod de la Eeyniere, a noted...

...rather think he is an admirer of Miss Atkinson's. I heartily wish you success in your scholarship — Tis not in mortals to command success. But well do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it. Do you not think this is exactly like your mother? — truly, I think so myself. I had an agreeable...

...our repeated disappointments I consoled myself with a sentence which you and I learned in our youth, 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it That this and every acquisition you may make may prove a permanent blessing to yourself and family...

...illustrating the danger of making your contentment depend upon what others alone can give. Sir Arthur. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. — only one ought to substitute the word 'applause' for 'success.' so express it, extra to the ordinary...

...Pope wrote the Prologue, and (ïarth the Epilogue. It is worth noticing how many things in "Cato" kcep their ground as habitual quotations, eg: — "... big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.s *' 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronlus, we'll deserve it."...

...TBCMBULL. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote the Prologue, and Garth the Epilogue. It is worth noticing how many things...; eg — " . . . big with the fate Of Cato and of Borne." " 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."...

...TKUMBULL. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote the Prologue, and Garth the Epilogue. It is worth noticing how many things...habitual quotations ; eg — "... big with the fate ^•S^V Of Cato and of Borne." " 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius,...

...heroic men, A consecrated band; Life is to them a battle-field, Their hearts a holy land." Tuckerman. "'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." Addison's Goto. Far more interest has been shown of late years in the education of the blind than in...

...The opposite of 'essential.' ft is satisfaction enough to deserve, &c. Cp. Addison's Calo, i. 2 — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." Thus we have no just quarrel. Cf. Pope, Essay on Man — "Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this...