 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 페이지
...ere her time Î No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last ; .So shall we gain still one day's liberty : And let...Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is wurth a whole eternity in bondage, Enttr J CUR'S. Jun. Fathers, even now, a herald is arriVd From Caesar's... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 페이지
...precisely the same tone of voice, how shockingly would the spirit and beauty of the sentiment be marred ! A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. act only two words in succession, but even three, four, or five, with scarcely a perceptible variation... | |
 | 1841 - 986 페이지
...ON ADDISON'S "CATO." — Every one a acquainted with that passage of Addison in his tragedy of Cato, "a day, an hour of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole eternity of bondage." Liberty appeared too cheaply estimated at tliis rate to a bookseller in Sunderland, who... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 306 페이지
...slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods ; " A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage." You have seen power in its various forms, — a benign deity, when exercised in the suppression... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 350 페이지
...annihilation of servitude and chains. The impression made in boyhood by the glorious exclamation of Cato, that A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage, has been worn deeper, not effaced, by time ; and we eagerly and ardently trust that the... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 344 페이지
...of servitude and chains. The impression made in boyhood by the glorious excla. million of Cato, that A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage, has been worn deeper, not effaced, by time ; and we eagerly and ardently trust that the... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 페이지
...| No', | let us draw Aer term of freedom out \ In its full length', | and spin it to the last — | So shall we gain still one' day's liberty : | And...gate, | Lodg'd on my post, | a her'ald is arriv'd From Caesar's camp' ; | and with Aim, comes old De'cius,] The Roman knight' — | he carries in his looks... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 598 페이지
...stalk about and draw fresh air From time to time, or gaze upon the sun ;— •Tis to be free !— A day — an hour of virtuous Liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage ! JAMES THOMPSON. Kind equal rule, the government of laws, And all-prolecting Freedom, whieli... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 페이지
...suspects himself a fool." " Thou sun ! of this world both eye and soul, Acknowledge Him thy greater." " A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole eternity of bondage." " Oh ! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon," " O, Death, the good man's dearest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 페이지
...her time ? 95 No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty ; And let me perish, but, in Cato'i, judgment, A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, ioo Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter... | |
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Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty: And let me perish, but, in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a... 
