 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1867 - 594 страници
...still the instance given in his poem, and it is the only one which he derives from ancient times. ' With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes...certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way. * * * * The insulted sea with humbler thought he gains, A single skiff to speed his flight remains... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 страници
...strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand. 220 He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes...Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barb'rous pride, 225 With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seise the certain prey, And starves... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 страници
...barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which tho world grew pale, To . But now the day was come, the day, the hour ; Now,...youth, she gave Her hand, with her heart in it, to tho certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 страници
...tale. In gay hostility and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes came to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant flattery counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more ; * Charles XII. compelled... | |
 | Dawn - 1874 - 340 страници
...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...Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 76 страници
...strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; 220 He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes...Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barb'rous pride, 225 With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves... | |
 | 1878 - 446 страници
...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...Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled ut his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey,... | |
 | 1878 - 300 страници
...he fled. Luigi Alamanni. Tr. Sir Aubrey de Vere. XEKXES. Fgay hostility and barbarous pride, IVith half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes...And starves exhausted regions in his way; Attendant Flattery counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more; Fresh praise is tried... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 страници
...dubious hand. 220 He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adom a tale. I All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From...Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barb'rous pride, 225 With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 страници
...at which the world grew pale, Го point a moral, or adorn a talc. AH times their scenes of pompons woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey,... | |
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He left the name, at which 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. 
