For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; Song. Is there for Honest Poverty.* * There are many expressions in Burns' songs," Auld Lang Syne," "Scots wha hae," etc., which have become almost "household words," but they scarcely come under the denomination of Familiar Quotations, as the phrase is usually understood. Addison. CATO.* The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, The great, th' important day, big with the fate *The extracts from Cato are taken from Addison's works, in six volumes, edited by Dr. Hurd, and not from the acting copy of the play; the reader is requested to notice this, as the arrangement of the acts and scenes differs materially in the play, as represented on the stage, from the works of Addison, as edited by Hurd. The celebrated soliloquy is given here at length, as so many portions of it are constantly quoted. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and pales upon the sense. A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Ibid. When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The woman that deliberates is lost. Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. What pity is it Ibid. That we can die but once to serve our country! When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.* It must be so-Plato, thou reason'st well- Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what new scenes and changes must we pass? And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue; * Give me, kind heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine. Gay's Fables, Part ii., Fable 2. Thus am I doubly armed :—my death and life, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. From hence, let fierce contending nations know, UNIVERSITY So when an angel by Divine command OF The Campaign. Lines 287-292. CALIFORNIA * Pope has this line in the Dunciad, Book III., line 264. See Quotations from Pope. Addison here refers to the great Duke of Marlborough, to whom the Poem of "the Campaign" was addressed. |