 Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 289by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...perjuries, Eternal taxes, treaties for a day, Servants that rule, and senates that obey. LORD LYTTELTON. Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man help'd the poor, And the poor man loved the great; Then lands were fairly portion'd; Then spoils were... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 pages
...quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old. Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the...Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. — Macaulay. 27. PEARLS AMONG THE ROMANS. ' Of all the articles of luxury and ostentation known to... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 pages
...patriotism — more of that spirit of which England's greatest historian speaks when he says : ' ' Then none was for a party, Then all were for the State,...fairly portioned, . Then spoils were fairly sold, Then Romans were like brothers, In the brave days of old." We want more union of all nationalities,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1876 - 248 pages
...moral progress can we hope to reach what has been so well described in the " Lays of Ancient Rome." " Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man loved the poor, And the poor man loved the great : Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 104 pages
...quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old. Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the...spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers Now Roman is to Roman More hateful than a foe, And the Tribunes beard the high, And the Fathers grind... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 240 pages
...Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son, nor wife, nor limb, nor life, In the brave days of old. XXXII. Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the...Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. XXXIII. Now Roman is to Roman More hateful than a foe, And the Tribunes beard the high, And the Fathers... | |
 | 1878 - 588 pages
...Socialist has no faith in the ideal picture which Macaulay draws of ancient Rome in its best days : ' Then none was for a party, Then all were for the state...fairly portioned, Then spoils were fairly sold : The RonmuR were like brothers In the brave days of old.' The Socialist would see in this stanza only self-contradiction.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...perjuries, Eternal taxes, treaties for a day, Servants that rule, and senates that obey. LORD LYTTELTON. Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man help'd the poor, And the poor man loved the great; Then lands were fairly portion'd; Then spoils were... | |
 | 1879 - 794 pages
...country life, would be greatly softened, and the "good old times " might once more come back, when The great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great. We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of another extract, as illustrating the higher side of a sympathy... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...quarrels Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old. Then none was for a party; Then all were for the state...Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. Now Roman is to Roman More hateful than a foe, And the Tribunes beard the high, And the Fathers grind... | |
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