 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 頁
...rural life. There live retired ; pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station. Portias. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell,... | |
 | 1837 - 706 頁
...happen in it, but because I feel, with a real patriot, a real poet, and a real lover of mankind, that, ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' By this I do not mean to allude to those who now nominally govern,— who are neither more vicious,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 頁
...happen in it, but because I feel, with a real patriot, a real poet, and a real lover of mankind, that, ' When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' By this I do not mean to allude to those who now nominally govern,—who are neither more vicious,... | |
 | Sarah Churchill (duchess of Marlborough.) - 1838 - 520 頁
...should never be weary of applications if I were not afraid of tiring you, but this I cannot forbear. " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." 'Tis pity this is true, and that the innocent must suffer for the guilty. LADY SUNDERLAND TO THE DUCHESS... | |
 | Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough - 1838 - 512 頁
...should never be weary of applications if I were not afraid of tiring you, but this I cannot forbear. " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." 'Tis pity this is true, and that the innocent must suffer for the guilty. 94> LADY SUNDERLAND. [Oct.... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - 254 頁
...room supply'd. 90 ' This bird,' says he, ' for bus'iiess fit, ' Hath both sagacity and wit. * " When impious men bear sway, " The post of honour is a private .station." ADDISO' With all bis turns, and shifts, and tricks, ' He's docile, and at nothing sticks. ' Then with... | |
 | 1840 - 452 頁
...that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so few are offended with it. — Swift. Where vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. — Calo. POET II V. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. " Our conversation a in heaven." I. WHEN life around us gaily... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 頁
...and flourish'd in a civil war.' " May I not add, without affectation, from the same author, ' Where vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' " " We might question this sentiment," observed Oldacre, as we returned to the dining-room, " and it... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 頁
...blesä'd In humble virtues, aud a rural life : There live retir'd: Content thyself to be obscurely good : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour it a private station. N Por. I hope, my father does not recommend A life to Poicius, that he scorns... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 頁
...vengeance only upon 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.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, " in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment... | |
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
