 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 Seiten
...Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the 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... | |
 | Juvenal - 1825 - 234 Seiten
...monarchs give the fatal wound? Or 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 that Name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. Jam tenet Italiani : tamen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or 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. yAntimes IKeir scenes of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 Seiten
...monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or 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. *A11 times their scenes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 Seiten
...monarchs give the fatal wound '. Or 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. • yAll times their scenes... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...monarchs give the fatal wound, Or 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. All times their scenes of... | |
 | George R. Carter - 1826 - 212 Seiten
...Charles that Doctor Johnson wrote the tolluwine celebrated li.e, : " ' ' " ff is fall teas de.stin'd to a barren strand, " A petty fortress, and a dubious...hand ." He left a name at which the world grew pale, M Topoint a moral and adorn a tale" O, theirs the spell of love, <&c. The Grisons are remarkable for... | |
 | 1826 - 488 Seiten
...— " His lull was destined to a villain's hand, " Upon a savage and a barren strand, " Leaving the name, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, and adorn a tale." •Amongst the turrets of Alexandria, seen at a distance in our engraving, the most conspicuous is... | |
 | Oxonian - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 462 Seiten
...Swedish hero of more modern times, though the last circumstance does not exactly correspond. His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand. Vidomar, Viscomte of Limoges, had discovered an extraordinary treasure, which by an old tradition had... | |
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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. 
