 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pàgines
...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 pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1790 - 500 pàgines
...Johnfon, in thofe energetic lines, which thus conclude the character of the Swedijh Charles ; *' Who left the name, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." De Foe was fo little difturbed by the appearance of The Moon Calf, or accurate reflections on... | |
 | John Adams - 1792 - 382 pàgines
...concluding Hnes defcribes his death. « His faJl was difliu'd to a barren (Irani), • ff A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; " He left the name at which the world grew pale, « To point a moral, or adorn a Ule." WRAXHAL. SECT. XXVII. t .OF PETERSBURG. AD 1774THIS great capital, though only a creation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pàgines
...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 pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | William Belsham - 1793 - 396 pàgines
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand : He left that name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. JOHNSON'S Im. of Juv. Sat. id. fhe really derived from the pofleffion of thefe detached and remote... | |
 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - 1794 - 406 pàgines
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was dcflin-d to a barren iha;id, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand He left the name at which the world grew pale, * Antigonus, and that of his father Demetrius, two inftances in his own houfe of the mutability of... | |
 | Plutarch - 1801 - 528 pàgines
...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 ! JOHNSON. chin, chin, fo that it was a long time before he could fepasrate the head from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pàgines
...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 pompous woes affordj From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pàgines
...the ground ? His fall was.deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He k ft the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. * All times their fcenes of pompous woes afford* From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 514 pàgines
...Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamat'to fias ! "Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Mceror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumftances of fome great... | |
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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. 
