 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...hostile millions press him to the ground ? His rail was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the...To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompons woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the...grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All limes their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pages
...hoftilc millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty forlrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. I do not recoiled any paffagc in the works of Pope, of greatrr energy and force of expivfliun,... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1811 - 352 pages
...hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was dest'm'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! membrance of the fate of his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius, two... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He l«ft 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 hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...hostile millions press him to the 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. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - India - 1814 - 432 pages
...Genghis and his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and ' He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - India - 1814 - 428 pages
...Genghis and his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 574 pages
...the spirit of Johnson, that Art. 13. Suonaparie, a Poem. 8vo. is. 6d. Murray. 1814. «« He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Many years must elapse before the history of this wonder and horror of our days can be dispassionately... | |
 | Books - 1814 - 574 pages
...itself," and will tell us, if not in the words, at least in the spirit of Johnson, that " He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Many years must elapse before the history of this wonder and horror of our days can be dispassionately... | |
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He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
