 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pages
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • , All times their fcenes of pom pous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's Lord.... | |
 | Plutarch - 1808 - 342 pages
...are victorious than it is to the vanquifhed." Then he paid his refpects to Helenus in a very obliging He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! jobnfoii. * Antigonuv the Firft was killed at the battle of Ipfus, and Demetrius the Firft long... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. In gay hostility, and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 pages
...give the fatal wound ; Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a foreign strand; A petty -fortress, and a dubious hand ; ....the world grew pale, To point a- moral, or adorn a tale. My lord DOUNE (the present earl of MORAY) did me the honour to correspond with me, long after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a talc,. * All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 pages
...the deaths of sovereigns. Dr. Johnson justly says of Charles XII. " Hii fall was destined to a barren strand, " A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; "...the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." The palaces in Sweden, though numerous enough, are less splendid or magnificent than I 'have... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'd to a barren n riock from all ihe world around ; Yet count our...but a name That leaves our useful product still the tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. Ivt gay... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a cl'ibkras hand ; He left the name, at- which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. '-' All timestheirscenesof pompous woesaffbrd, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord! In gay... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...bitter potion, 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall wasde*tin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the wurld grew pale. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. ]i All times tneir seen esof pompous woes aSurd,... | |
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His fall was destined 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. 
