 | John Bell - 1791 - 292 páginas
...sacrifice His life, nay, more, his honour, rh your service. That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not: It ought not to be sported with. Syph. By Heav'ns, I'm ravish'd when you talk thus, though you chide me! Alas I I've hitherto been us'd... | |
 | Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 452 páginas
...sacrifice His life, nay, more, his honour, in your service. -That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not: It ought not to be sported with. Syph. By Heav'ns, I'm ravish'd when you talk thus, though you chide me! Alas ! I've hitherto been us'd... | |
 | 1797 - 462 páginas
...sacrifice His life, nay, more, his honour, in your service. That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not : It ought not to be sported with. Syph. By Heav'ns, I'm ravish'd when you talk thus, though you chide me ! Alas I I've hitherto been... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 462 páginas
...sacrifice His life, nay, more, his honour, in your service. That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not : It ought not to be sported with. Sypli. By Heav'ns, I'm ravish'd when you talk thus, though you chide me! Alas I I've hitherto been... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 292 páginas
...vile a nature. I shall conclude this head with the description of honour in the part of young Juba : ' Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble...distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not. It ought not to be sported with ' CATO.... | |
 | 1803 - 228 páginas
...naturally noble ; or in such as have been cultivated by great examples, or a refined education. Honor's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue vvheri it 'meets her, And imitates her a6tions where she is not. It ought not to be sported with. IMPATIENCE.... | |
 | 1803 - 572 páginas
...the defmition of the moralist, is sufficiently fixed by that •f the poet: " Honour's a sacred tic, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her action:, where she in not."' This maxim is, besides, inconsistent... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...this head with the description of honour in the parting of young Juba. Honour's a sacred tie , the Jaw of kings , The noble mind's distinguishing perfection...where she is not. It ought not to be sported with.— — CATO. In the second place, we are to consider those who have mistaken notions of Honour. And these... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 páginas
...vile $ nature. I shall conclude this head with the description of honour in the part of young Juba. Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble...distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meetg her, And imitates her actions where she is not. It ought not to be sported with———... | |
 | 1804 - 468 páginas
...The noble mind's distinguishing perfection ; gold, [ADDISON. That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not : It ought not to be sported with. Spy/i. By Heavens, I am ravished when you talk thus, though you chide me ! Alas ! I have hitherto been... | |
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Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not. 
