| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 頁
...her ladyship in 1716; and died at Holland House three years after that splendid but dismal union.* " Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." " Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 頁
...her ladyship in 1716; and died at Holland House three years after that splendid but dismal union.* " Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." " Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - 1869 - 446 頁
... OP THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. HENRY M. FIELD, DD JTis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius— we'll deserve it. ADDISON'S CATO. THIKD EDITION. NEW-YOKK : CHARLES SCBIBNEB & CO., 654 BKOADWAY. 1869. Entered, according... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 頁
...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 586 頁
...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... | |
| Hawley Smart - 1871 - 340 頁
...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 頁
...keep their ground as 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." " Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still... | |
| Sir William Henry Maule - 1872 - 316 頁
...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... | |
| Sir Joseph Arnould - 1873 - 498 頁
...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... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - 1873 - 274 頁
...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... | |
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