 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 oldal
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs and a dubious hand ; He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale *. 51. Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, As the fmall pebble ftirs the... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 oldal
...monarchs give the fatal wound i _ Or hostile millions press him to the ground 1 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... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 oldal
...themselves of so much of his kingdom as they had any pretensions to claim." 30. His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand;'} He was shot at the siege of Frederickshall, Dec. ist, 1718. 30. All times their scenes of pompous wots... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 oldal
...The unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain. His death was destined to a foreign strand, A nameless fortress, and a dubious hand : He left a name, at...world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale. Swedenborg's Muse, however, was not confined to gravities. The majority of these juvenile poems consists... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 oldal
...tenth Satire : 1, demens, & fevas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias : He left that name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale. Dr. Johnfon. The latter of thefe lines is excellent, the former infipidly profaic, and made only for... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 506 oldal
...curre per Alp^, Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias ! Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Moeror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumftances of... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 514 oldal
...curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamat'to fias ! "Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Mceror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumftances of... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1803 - 548 oldal
...curre per Alpes, lit pucris placeas, ct declamatio has ! Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Maeror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumflances of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 oldal
...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 palej \ To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes... | |
 | Joseph Sansom - 1805 - 494 oldal
...an open Press for the amusement of idle Curiosity, leaving, as Pope said of the ferocious Swede, " a name at "which the World grew pale " To point a moral, or adorn a tale" But we were soon overtaken by our returning Messenger, who brought us word that the... | |
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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. 
