 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pągines
...rival monarchs 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,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pągines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pągines
...monarch* 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...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All limes their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pągines
...rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was dest'm'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pągines
...hoftilc millions prefs him to the 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pągines
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deiftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fonrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pair, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 1 1 do not recollect any pafiage in the works of Pope, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pągines
...monarchs 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 l«ft the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pągines
...rival monarchs 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...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pągines
...The unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain. His death was destin'd to a foreign strand, A nameless fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral and adorn a tale." There is one pretty little epigram, " In puellam dictam Victoriam," which, in honour... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 pągines
...Genghis and 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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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. 
