 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 284 pages
...lov'st me, but indeed Thy zeal for Juba carried thee too far. 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 : It ought not to be sported with. SYPHAX. By heavens !... | |
 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 pages
...lov'st me ; but indeed Thy leal for Juba carried thee too far. Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings. The noble mind's distinguishing perfection. That aids and strengthens virtue where it meet; her. 8 SOOT ii *• CATO. verg S/ph, Believe me, prince, you make old Syphax weep To bear you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...good breeding, what Addison in his Cato says of honour: ' Honour's a gacred tie ; the law of kings ; ly serious, but vehement. Yet I have hear And imitates her actions where she is not' " When he took up his large oak stick, he said, " My lord,... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1836 - 780 pages
...effect, in the last case, Is finely described by Mr Addlson : Honour's 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. It is not to be sported with. From the man who does sport... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...true priz'd worth divide In storms of fortune. SHAKESPEARE. HONOUR is 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. ADDISON. TRUE happiness Consists not in a multitude of friends,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pages
...with the description of honour in the part of young Juba : " 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. It ought not to be sported with.' Coift In the second place,... | |
 | Henry Thompson - Authors, English - 1838 - 444 pages
...moralist, as well as an eminent dramatick poet, who said, " 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, where she is not, imitates her actions." 1 Had Hannah More addressed to the patrons of the drama... | |
 | Henry Thompson - Authors, English - 1838 - 452 pages
...moralist, as well as an eminent dramatick poet, who said, " 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, where she is not, imitates her actions." 1 Had Hannah More addressed to the patrons of the drama... | |
 | George Oliver - 1841 - 170 pages
...Masons, and despising the hostility of those, who, nnbound by Honour's 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 would crumble in the dust a fabric built for the shelter... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 616 pages
...barter and huckstering, and pure fame is outweighed by gold. " Honour 'sa sacred tic, 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 : It ought not to be sported with."* But quickly thus degenerated... | |
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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; It ought not to be sported with. 
