Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
-- Cato, Act ii, Sc. 1
And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
-- Cato, Act ii, Sc. 1
Related:
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act ii, Sc.... - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, the important day, big with the fate Of... - The woman that deliberates is lost.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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Cato, Act iv, Sc.... - My voice is still for war.
Gods! can a Roman senate long debate
Which of the two to choose,
slavery or death? -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) ... - Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon forget
The pale,
unripened beauties of the north. -- Joseph Addison... - T is not in mortals to command success,
But we 'll do more,
Sempronius,--we 'll deserve it. -- Joseph Addison... - What a pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc.... - Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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Cato, Act i, Sc.... - Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc....
