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" He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. "
Men of deed and daring - Page 6
by Edward N. Marks - 1861
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of ..., Volume 2

John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...which he was to drain from it. Says Johnson, speaking of Charles the twelfth of Sweden, He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • By the world is intended here its inhabitants. 4. The name of a place is often substituted...
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, Volume 3

Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...ground? His fall was dest'm'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand. He left the name, at which the world grew pale' To point a moral, or adorn a tale! membrance of the fate of his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius, two...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pages
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty forlrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. I do not recoiled any paffagc in the works of Pope, of greatrr energy and force of expivfliun,...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He l«ft the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In gay...
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Letters ... written between the years 1784 and 1807 [ed. by A. Constable].

Anna Seward - 1811 - 464 pages
...ambition, which, in him, there is every probability, as in the great Charles of Sweden, " Will leave a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale." Adieu. LETTER XLIV. RET. TS WHALLEY. Lichfield, Oct. 7, 1799I AH recently returned...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 2

Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...ground? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand. He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 574 pages
...at least in the spirit of Johnson, that Art. 13. Suonaparie, a Poem. 8vo. is. 6d. Murray. 1814. «« He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Many years must elapse before the history of this wonder and horror of our days can be dispassionately...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1814 - 574 pages
...o'erleaps itself," and will tell us, if not in the words, at least in the spirit of Johnson, that " He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Many years must elapse before the history of this wonder and horror of our days can be dispassionately...
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Letters on India

Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly...
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Letters on India

Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly...
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