 | British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
...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 whole eternity in bondage. Enter M.iucfs. Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watched the gate, Lodged on my post, a... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...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 whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS. Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watched the gate, Lodged on my post, a herald... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...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 whole eternity in bondage. ENTER MARCUS. MARCUS. Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gates, Lodg'd on my post,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...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 whole eternity in bondage. DESCRIPTION cf a HURRICANE. (ADDISON.) So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden,... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 pages
...I give myself the pleasure of setting down some imitations I observed in the Cato of Addison : — A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bonda£e- Addison. »• • Quod si immortalitas consequeretur praesentis periculi fugam, tamen eo... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1807 - 312 pages
...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 whole eternity in bondage. EXTRACT 268 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR. EXTRACT FROM AN ORATION, AT BOSTON, JULY 4, 1794, IN... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1808 - 220 pages
...human nature may not convert into a curse. Thus, who would not subscribe to the poet's opinion, — " A day, an hour of virtuous Liberty, " Is worth a whole eternity of bondage," — if he had not seen, or read, that even THOU, O blessed LIBERTY, mightest be perverted into LICENTIOUSNESS... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 446 pages
...to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty: And let me perish, but, in Cato's j udgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS, Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gale, Lodg'd on my post, a herald... | |
 | George Farquhar - 1808 - 338 pages
...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 whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS, Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watch 'd the gate, Lodg'd on my post, a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 384 pages
...give myselfe the pleasure of setting down some imitations I observed in the Cato of Addison : Addison. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Act 2, Sc 1. Tully. Qund si immortalitas consequeretur praesentis periculi fugam, tamen... | |
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
