 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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 left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a talc,. * All times their scenes... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...nwnnrchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'd And rich men riock from all ihe world around ; Yet count our gains the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...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 hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All limes their scenes of... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1811 - 352 pages
...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 hand. He left the name, at which the world grew pale' To point a moral, or adorn a tale! membrance of the fate of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...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 hand. He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson. better than before;... | |
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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. 
