 | Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1784 - 446 pages
...ground? His fall was duiin'd to a bnrren ftrand, •f- A petty fortrcis, 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 pompous woes afford, From Periia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 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 pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 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 pompous woes afford, From Pcrfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...ground ? His fall was dettin'd to a barren (trand, A petty fortrefs, 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 fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perlia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1789 - 248 pages
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrafs, 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 pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 pages
...ground I 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 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 pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1790 - 500 pages
...in thofe energetic lines, which thus conclude the character of the Swedijh Charles ; *' Who left the name, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." De Foe was fo little difturbed by the appearance of The Moon Calf, or accurate reflections on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 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 pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | John Adams - 1792 - 382 pages
...faJl was difliu'd to a barren (Irani), • ff A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; " He left the name at which the world grew pale, « To point a moral, or adorn a Ule." WRAXHAL. SECT. XXVII. t .OF PETERSBURG. AD 1774THIS great capital, though only a creation of... | |
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He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
