 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and в dubious hand ; He left a 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 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. • yAll times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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. yAntimes IKeir scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...ground ? 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. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 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. *A11 times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Juvenal - 1825 - 234 pages
...? — His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand : He left that Name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. Jam tenet Italiani : tamen ultnl pergere tendit : " Actum," inquit, " nihil est, nist Pceno milite... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 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... | |
 | Oxonian - 1826 - 318 pages
...indeed, a very cruel consideration. CHAP. VI. ! 5t.'t.. ' ' ST. HELENA. NAPOLEON. A SAVOURY REPAST. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.—JOHNSON. To the reflection, with which, the preceding chapter ended, the writer replied, It... | |
 | 1826 - 568 pages
...frontier-town of Norway, rendered memorable by the tragical death of Charles XII., who there " left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Mr. Wilson's description of his journey to this celebrated place is animated and picturesque.... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...frontier-town of Norway, rendered memorable by the tragical death of Charles XII., who there " left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Mr. Wilson's description of his journey to this celebrated place is animated and picturesque.... | |
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He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
