 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 oldal
...did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? 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 в dubious hand ; He left a name, at which the world... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 oldal
...did not Chance at length her error mend ? . Did no subverted empire mark his end ? 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... | |
 | 1826 - 438 oldal
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 | 1826 - 570 oldal
...Frederickshall, a 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 - 568 oldal
...Frederickshall, a 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.... | |
 | Oxonian - 1826 - 318 oldal
...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 - 738 oldal
...sons, of no more value than are now the bulletins of the phantasmagoria Chieftain, who " — left that name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Yours, &c. HAMS HIJORNOR. Mr. URBAN, Leicester, Feb. II. I AM sorry I cannot coincide with your... | |
 | George R. Carter - 1826 - 212 oldal
...It was on 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,... | |
 | 1826 - 488 oldal
...Johnson, — " 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... | |
 | 1971 - 266 oldal
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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. 
