Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His... Specimens of the British poets - Página 221de British poets - 1809Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 páginas
...end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His rail was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress,...the world grew pale, 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... | |
| Plutarch - 1811 - 352 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 páginas
...and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his eud? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile...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 páginas
...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 - 428 páginas
...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... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...warrior's pride " is strikingly exemplified in the fate of " Swedish. Charles :" " His fall was deatin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." The " protracted woes " of " protracted life," are pathetically enumerated, and the dark catalogue... | |
| Plutarch - 1816 - 314 páginas
...wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend f • T)id no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs...the world grew pale ! To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! got it, he rode off with it to his father, and cast it at his feet', as he was sitting with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 páginas
...did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival rnonarchs give the fatal wound ? \Or hostile millions press...; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, * Ver. 147— 1€7- * O'er love or/oree. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. * All times their scenes... | |
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