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" Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But 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... "
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author ...

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 sivua
...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...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...

Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 sivua
...Th' encumber'd oar icaice leaves the dreaded coall, • Through purple billows and a floating hoft. . He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • . ;« The bold Bavarian, in a lucklefs hour, f Tries the dread fummits of Cefarean pow'r,...

Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ...

1817 - 314 sivua
...course delay; Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day: The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken hands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da...strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He lefi .the name, at which the world grew pale,' To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their soenes...

Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 sivua
...The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'd, a needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose,...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...

Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Nide 3

Plutarchus - 1819 - 538 sivua
...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...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 11 Antigonus I., as we have stated in a former note, was killed at the battle of Ipsus; and...

The Works of the Late Miss Catherine Talbot: First Published by the Late Mrs ...

Catherine Talbot - 1819 - 414 sivua
...Johnson in his application of the Satirist's character of Hannibal, to that of Charles xn. of Sweden. " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Essay xir. 147 to stand on those gems, in the midst of the earth, the sun and moon, seem to...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 sivua
...— Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day : The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken bands, And shews his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant...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...

The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Nide 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 sivua
...mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound, Or hostile millions press him to the ground 2 His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays ; Hides...

Ivanhoe;: A Romance, Nide 3

Sir Walter Scott - 1820 - 384 sivua
...for Charles of Sweden— His fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and a " humble" hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. THE END. EDINBURGH : Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. ...

Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Nide 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 sivua
...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...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...




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