| Sir Walter Scott - 1820 - 388 pages
...— His fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and a ' ' humble" hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. THE END. r EDINBURGH: Printed by James Ballantyne anil Co WOKKS PUBLISHED BY ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 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. * All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| Thomas Pruen - 1820 - 348 pages
...—" He goes, inglorious, to a distant soil," A petty fortress " in a narrow Isle;" " And leaves" the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! ASSUMPTION of the Virgin Mary. A festival in the Greek and Romish Churches, to celebrate the... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...ground ? 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. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...ground ? 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. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand : He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale."» * Vanity of Human Wishes: In Imitation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal. The reader will, perhaps,... | |
| 1827 - 472 pages
...sunbeam. Frederickshall possesses no other attraction than tii.it which is derived from him, " Who left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Although contrary to the usual practice, yet I found little difficulty in prevailing on the... | |
| 1822 - 520 pages
...to be commended, much to be admired, more to be condemned, and all to be wondered at. " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." 220 No. II. HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN CAROLINE. - . IN presenting to the public a memoir of the... | |
| Plutarch - 1822 - 504 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 ' struck with terror. His hands trembled, and between his desire to give the stroke, and the confusion... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 320 pages
...ground? 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. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
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