| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 sivua
...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... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 428 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale. Swedenborg's Muse, however, was not confined to gravities.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 sivua
...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 Warton - 1806 - 440 sivua
...moharchs 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 a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.* Two succeeding passages, in this fourth epistle, the first,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 sivua
...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... | |
| Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1807 - 470 sivua
...Do you remember the four concluding lines, that describe Charles's death ? " His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, •" A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; " He left the aame, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." There is another relic,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 sivua
...uncertainty which so often waits on the deaths of sovereigns. Dr. Johnson justly says of Charles XII. " Hii 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." The palaces in Sweden,... | |
| Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 sivua
...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 foreign strand; A petty -fortress, and a dubious hand ; . He left the name at which the world grew... | |
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