 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 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 talc,. * All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 σελίδες
...press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a cl'ibkras hand ; He left the name, at- which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. '-' All timestheirscenesof pompous woesaffbrd, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord! In gay hostility and... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 σελίδες
...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 - 206 σελίδες
...hostile millions press him to the ground ? His rail was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the...To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompons woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 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...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 hostility,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 σελίδες
...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 his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius, two... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 σελίδες
...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 of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 σελίδες
...fubvcrted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 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. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that... | |
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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. 
