| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 σελίδες
...which Cato says, when the body of his son is brought before him: "How beautiful is death when earned by virtue. Who would not be that youth? What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country!"— George Dudley Seymour, Captain Nathan Hale, Major John Palsgrave Wyllys, A Digressive... | |
| Alan McNairn - 1997 - 332 σελίδες
...England's glory smiles in death."24 Addison has Cato, while mourning the death of his son Marcus, say: How beautiful is death when earn'd by Virtue! Who...would not be that youth? What Pity is it That we can but die once, to serve our country. This passage was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on 7 February... | |
| David Hackett Fischer - 2006 - 578 σελίδες
...death Nathan Hale repeated part of a passage from Addison's Cato, the great model for American Whigs: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who...youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country. British officers were moved by Nathan Hale's "gentle dignity," even as they left... | |
| Alan Axelrod - 2007 - 398 σελίδες
...would be familiar with a speech from the British playwright Joseph Addison's successful 1713 play Cato: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who...youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our countrv. A ninetheeth-century illustration depicting Hales execution. Fire Four days went... | |
| Jason Shaffer - 2007 - 254 σελίδες
...man but with meditations on death, glory, and the citizen's overwhelming obligations to the republic: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who...youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! . . . Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome... | |
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