 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 292 pages
...lite ; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. \_Ex. Sem. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire I Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...life ; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [£*. Sem. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire I Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder... | |
 | Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 452 pages
...thunder in their ears their country's cause. AB I. CATo. 19 And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [£*. Son. Curse'on the stripling! how he apes his sire! . Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...life; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in 'em. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Ex. Sem. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire ! Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder Old... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 640 pages
...might have justly exclaimed with all the spirit and resolution of a Roman, opposed to a superior force, 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, — we'll deserve it, Captain Watkins, in the very interesting account of this expedition which he sent to Sir J. Norris,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...: I'll thunder in their ears, their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. [J2*nV. SEMPRONIUS Solus. Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire! Ambitiously sententious ! but... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 446 pages
...life ; I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. [Exit. Sem. Curse on the stripling ! how he apes his sire ! Ambitiously sententious — But I wonder... | |
 | 1809 - 596 pages
...spirit j an.J supposes that in ihe solitude of his confinement he may exclaim with the hero of Utica, ' 'Tis not in Mortals to command success } But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' 'Sweden,' we are told, ' has lost duriiigthis war one third of its superficial extent, one fourth of... | |
 | Horse racing - 1809 - 420 pages
...and two sureties in 2501. each. MAN, 212 MANCHESTER THEATRICALS, Or, M'Cready's Misfortunes. •• Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius— we'll deserve it." • - . 'T'HE friends of modest merit will be sorry to hear of the cause of the following address.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, and try to rouze up all that's Roman in them. T is not in mortals to command success: but we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. [Exit. Sent. Curse on this stripling! How he apes his sire! ambitiously sententious! — But I wonder... | |
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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 
