| Joseph Sansom - 1805 - 494 pages
...an open Press for the amusement of idle Curiosity, leaving, as Pope said of the ferocious Swede, " a name at "which the World grew pale " To point a moral, or adorn a tale" But we were soon overtaken by our returning Messenger, who brought us word that the Ferry was... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...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 times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1807 - 470 pages
...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... | |
| Plutarch - 1808 - 342 pages
...than it is to the vanquifhed." Then he paid his refpects to Helenus in a very obliging He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! jobnfoii. * Antigonuv the Firft was killed at the battle of Ipfus, and Demetrius the Firft long... | |
| George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pages
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • , All times their fcenes of pom pous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's Lord.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...ground ? His fall was deslin'd to a barren strand,. A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the is wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. Ivt gay... | |
| Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 pages
...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... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 pages
..." 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... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...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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