 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...crocodile pity, "Alas! I fear it will be said of me, as Bato said to Tiberius, You, you it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks not to shepherds but to wolves." * Leliwd, Vol. II. Book IV. cup 283. t Ib. p. 287. The invasion being thus disposed of, and the affairs... | |
 | Thomas Leland - Ireland - 1814 - 520 pages
...to Camden. « Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian com• " motions: You, you it is that are in fault, who " have committed your flocks not to shepherds but to " wolves." BUT this imperious princess gave ready ear lo those ministers who recommended the maintenance of her... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions — ' You — you it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves'" Notwithstanding this charitable ejaculation, she preferred her darling prerogative to the comfort of... | |
 | James Hardiman - English poetry - 1831 - 460 pages
...Ah ! how I fear, lest it be objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato ; you, yon, it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks not to shepherds, but to wolves." Vet, strange inconsistency of human nature, this very woman, soon after so awful a confession of an... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...committed your Jlocks not to shepherds but to wolves !" .Vnd now for our specimens of the policy df this reign. Let the poet Spenser, in the first place,...brought upon the people of Munster," by a war into which tlieir leader, the Earl of Desmond, was driven by the cupidity of the chief Governors, who had long... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - Ireland - 1868 - 642 pages
...objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions ! You it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves." Nevertheless, the " wolves" were still permitted to plunder; and any impression made on the royal feelings... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - Ireland - 1875 - 742 pages
...objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions ! You it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves." Nevertheless, the " wolves" were still permitted to plunder; and any impression made on the royal feelings... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere, Aubrey Thomas DeVere - English poetry - 1877 - 450 pages
...objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions, ' You it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves.'" "1 The Queen had no more devoted adherent in Ireland than Ormond, of whose consanguinity with her she... | |
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Ah, how I fear lest it be objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions! You it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves. 