 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 σελίδες
...fubverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren...All times their fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hoftility and barb'rous pride, With half mankind embattled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 σελίδες
...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...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 hostility and barb'rous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 σελίδες
...millions press him to the ground ? 4. £ Hi* fall was destin'd to a barren strand, t- 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. *A11 times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1807 - 470 σελίδες
...fall was destin'd to a barren strand, •" A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; " He left the aame, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." There is another relic, which was shewn ;me in the arsenal here, where it is kept with almost... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 σελίδες
...fubverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren...moral, or adorn a tale. • , All times their fcenes of pom pous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's Lord. In gay hoftility, and barb'rous pride,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1808 - 342 σελίδες
...fubverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fuurcis, and a dubious hand. about him did not know him 5 but one Zopyrus, who ferved under Antigonus,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 σελίδες
...hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'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. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. Ivt gay... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 σελίδες
...Johnson justly says of Charles XII. " Hii 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." The palaces in Sweden, though numerous enough, are less splendid or magnificent than I 'have... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 σελίδες
...hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a foreign 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. My lord DOUNE (the present earl of MORAY) did me the honour to correspond with me, long after... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 σελίδες
...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. In gay hostility, and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes... | |
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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. 
