British Theatre: The orphan, by Thomas Otway. 1791. Cato, by Joseph Addison. 1791J. Bell, 1791 |
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Strana x
... Roman drops from British eyes . Virtue confess'd in human shape he draws , What Plato thought , and god - like Cato ... senate laws , What bosom PROLOGUE. ...
... Roman drops from British eyes . Virtue confess'd in human shape he draws , What Plato thought , and god - like Cato ... senate laws , What bosom PROLOGUE. ...
Strana xi
John Bell. While Cato gives his little senate laws , What bosom beats not in ... Rome her Cato's figure drawn in state ; As her dead father's rev'rend image ... Rome ador'd , And honour'd Cæsar's , less than Cato's sword . Britons attend ...
John Bell. While Cato gives his little senate laws , What bosom beats not in ... Rome her Cato's figure drawn in state ; As her dead father's rev'rend image ... Rome ador'd , And honour'd Cæsar's , less than Cato's sword . Britons attend ...
Strana 14
... Rome's citizens , and drench'd in slaugh- ter , His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh , Portius ! is there not ... Roman greatness , And , cover'd with Numidian guards , directs A feeble army , and an empty senate , Remnants of ...
... Rome's citizens , and drench'd in slaugh- ter , His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh , Portius ! is there not ... Roman greatness , And , cover'd with Numidian guards , directs A feeble army , and an empty senate , Remnants of ...
Strana 17
... Roman liberty . Por . My father has this morning call'd together To this poor hall , his little Roman senate , ( The leavings of Pharsalia ) to consult C If he can yet oppose the mighty torrent That bears A & t I. 17 CATO .
... Roman liberty . Por . My father has this morning call'd together To this poor hall , his little Roman senate , ( The leavings of Pharsalia ) to consult C If he can yet oppose the mighty torrent That bears A & t I. 17 CATO .
Strana 18
John Bell. If he can yet oppose the mighty torrent That bears down Rome , and all her gods before it , Or must at length give up the world to Cæsar . Sem . Not all the pomp and majesty of Rome Can raise her senate more than Cato's ...
John Bell. If he can yet oppose the mighty torrent That bears down Rome , and all her gods before it , Or must at length give up the world to Cæsar . Sem . Not all the pomp and majesty of Rome Can raise her senate more than Cato's ...
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Acast AMBROSE PHILIPS Andr Andromache arms Astyanax bear beauty behold blest blood brave brother Cæsar Cast Castalio Cato Cato's Ceph Cephisa Chamont Chap charms Cleo Cleone death Decius dost thou e'er Enter Epirus ev'n ev'ry Exeunt Exit eyes false fate father fear fortune friendship give gods Greece Greeks grief guards happy hate hear heart Heav'n Hector Hermione honour hope Juba king live lord lov'd Lucia Lucius madam maid Marc Marcia Marcus Monimia ne'er never Numidian o'er Orest passion Phan Pharsalia Phoenix pity Polydore Portius Pr'ythee prince Pylades Pyrrhus rage Roman Roman senate Rome SCENE scorn Sempronius senate shew sorrows soul speak sure sword Syph Syphax tears tell thee thou hast thought Troy Twas Twill tyrant unhappy virtue vows wilt thou woman wouldst thou wretch wrong'd
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Strana 78 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Strana 79 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Strana 79 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Strana 78 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Strana 79 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Strana x - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Strana 18 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Strana 34 - CATO. Let|| not a torrent of impetuous zeal Transport thee thus beyond the bounds of REASON : True FORTITUDE is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides: All else is tow'ring frenzy and distraction.
Strana 24 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
Strana 63 - Forbear, Sempronius ! — see they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men. Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. Lucius, the base degenerate age requires Severity, and justice in its rigour; This awes an impious...