 On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...  Plutarch's Lives - Page 239by Plutarch - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...forced to seek ref age in Turkey. He was afterwards killed at the siege of a little fort in Norway. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright...domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain; War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field: No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, And one capitulate,... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pages
...on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How inst liis iinoes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a...tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the enormous weight ? Why but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; 1 Menial lord — the lord of the menials, the steward of the household. O'er love, o'er fear, extends... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 872 pages
...Johnson's character of Charles XII. is the best comment on the life of that adventurous warrior : — " On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconqnered lord of pleasure and of pain;... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 852 pages
...Johnson's character of Charles XII. is the best comment on the life of that adventurous warrior : — " On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain;... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1846 - 252 pages
...similarity of sound between the last syllables •f different lines, as in the following verses : — On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. In Blank Verse the final syllables do not rhyme. A Casura is a cessation of the voice, and occurs immediately... | |
 | Henry Goddard Leach - 1926 - 620 pages
...corners of the earth. "Swedish Charles — Unconquered Lord of Pleasure and of Pain" By SAMUEL JOHNSON ON what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain;... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 pages
...Foundation stands the Warrior's Pride?" (VHW 191). Charles' personality is the key to his entire career: A Frame of Adamant, a Soul of Fire, No Dangers fright...tire; O'er Love, o'er Fear, extends his wide Domain, Unconquer'd Lord of Pleasure and of Pain; [ VHW 193-96] The above quatrain skillfully interweaves the... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1915 - 326 pages
...Concerning him, the poet's hyperbole about King Charles of Sweden might have been used with aptness : "A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire." His career was one of incessant toil and struggle, and service mainly for others. He... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...of Eighteenth -Century Verse), ed. R. Lonsdale, 1984. pp. 319-20. Cf. Critical commentary, p. 353. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How...of fire. No dangers fright him and no labours tire . . . 'Think nothing gained,' he cries, 'till naught remains, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards... | |
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