 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 716 pages
...[profligatta, Lat.] Abandoned ; loft to virtue and decency ; fluirneIds. Our father* have been worfe than theirs, And we than ours ; next age will fee A race more profligate than we. Rofcommon. How far have we Prophan'd thy heav'nly gift of poefy .' Made proftitute and profligate the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 770 pages
...adj.^profllgatus, Lat.] Abandoned ; loft to virtue and decency ; fliameOur fathers have been worfe than theirs, And we than ours ; next age will fee A race more profligate than we. Rofi ommon. How far have we Prophan'd thy heav'nly gift of poefy ? Mide proftitute and profligate the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...all things impair» ; Our fathers have been worse than theirs, Anil we than ours; next age will see A race more profligate than we, With all the pains we take, have still enough to be. Rtucomman. How far have we Prophaned thy heavenly gift of poesy? Made prostitute... | |
 | Horace - Latin poetry - 1831 - 352 pages
...all things impairs ; Our fathers have been worse than theirs ; And we than ours, next age will see 50 A race more profligate than we (With all the pains we take) have skill enough to be. ODE IX. — TO LYDIA. BY BISHOP ATTERBURY.-1700. Horace. WHILST I was fond, and you were kind, Nor... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1831 - 354 pages
...all things impairs; Our fathers have been worse than theirs ; And we than ours, next age will see 50 A race more profligate than we (With all the pains we take) have skill enough to be. ODE IX. TO LYDIA. BY BISHOP ATTERBURY.-1700. Horace. WHILST I was fond, and you were kind, Nor any... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...sensibly all things impairs; Our fathers have been worse than theirs ; And we than ours; next age will see A race more profligate than we (With all the pains we take) have skill enough to be. ODE IN. HOHACE AND l.1 ,ii ,. HOHACE. Waii.sT I was fond, and you were kind, Nor any dearer youth,... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...impairs; Our fathers have been worse than theirs; And we than ours; next age will see A race tnore profligate than we (With all the pains we take) have skill enough to be. DDK IX. HORACE 1MI Hill 1. HORACE. WHILST I was fond, and you were kind, Nor any dearer youth, reclined... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...sensibly all things impairs; Our fathers have been worse than theirs, And we than ours ; next age will see A race more profligate than we, With all the pains we take, have skill enough to be. ROSCOMMON. The greatest schemes that human wit can forge. Or bold ambition dares to put in practice,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...all things impairs ; Our fathers have been worse than theirs, And we than ours ; next age will see A race more profligate than we, With all the pains we take, have skill enough to be. ROSCOMMOX. The greatest schemes that human wit can forg«, Or bold ambition dares to put in practice,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1880 - 320 pages
...all things impairs ; Our fathers have been worse than theirs ; And we than ours ; next age will see A race more profligate than we, With all the pains we take, have skill enough to be. ROSCOMMON. ODE VII. TO ASTERIE. Quidfles, Asterie, quern tibi candidi. WHY weepest Asterie ? when in... | |
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Time sensibly all things impairs; Our fathers have been worse than theirs ; And we than ours; next age will see A race more profligate than we (With all the pains we take) have skill enough to be. 
