 Think nothing gained,' he cries, 'till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.' The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast,...  Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greekby Plutarch - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...НГ-107. No joys to him pacific sceptre« yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their power combine. And one capitulate,...Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain ; [remain, " Think nothing gain'd," he críe«, " till nought On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...sceptres yield, — War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their powers combine, And one capitulate, and one resign ; Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain ; [main ; ' Think nothing gain'd,' he cries, ' till naught reOn Moscow's walls till Gothic standards... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their pow'rs combine, • And one capitulate, and one resign ;...Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain 4 Think nothing gain'd,' he cries, ' till nought remain : On Mosco's walls till Gothic standards fly,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their powers combine, And one capitulate, and one resign; Peace...hand, but spreads her charms in vain ; "Think nothing gained," he cries. " till naught remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 496 pages
...of pain; No joys to him pacifioscepfres yield. War sounds the trump, be rushes to the field. Behold surrounding kings their power combine, And one capitulate and one resign; Peace courts.his hand, but spreads her charms in vain: “Think nothing gain'd,” he cried, “till nought... | |
 | 1835 - 802 pages
...rusnes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their pow'rs combine, And one capitulate, and one icsign; Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain ; "Think nothing irain'd," he cries, '' till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - 1836 - 412 pages
...sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field. Behold surrounding kings their powers combine, And one capitulate, and one resign : Peace...Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain j " On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, " And all be mine beneath the polar sky." The march... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their pow'r combine, And one capitulate, and one resign; 200 Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; "Think nothing gain'd," he cries," till naught remain. And all be mine beneath the polar sky." On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1841 - 480 pages
...of pain; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield. War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field. Behold surrounding kings their power combine, And one capitulate...Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain: " Tlu'nk nothing gain'd," he cried, "till nought remain On Moscow's walls, till Gothic standards fly,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1841 - 790 pages
...pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trttmp, he rushes to the field. Behold surrounding kings their power combine. And one capitulate,...one resign. Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charral in vain, " Think nothing gain'd," he cries, *' till nought rr> ' main, On Moscow's walls, till... | |
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