| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 страници
...ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and в dubious hand ; He left a 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. In gay hostility and barbarous... | |
| Juvenal - 1825 - 234 страници
...? — His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand : He left that Name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. Jam tenet Italiani : tamen ultnl pergere tendit : " Actum," inquit, " nihil est, nist Pceno milite... | |
| 1826 - 570 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 738 страници
...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... | |
| Oxonian - 1826 - 318 страници
...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 - 488 страници
...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... | |
| Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 страници
...in a compass, so restricted as ours, any other reflection upon this extraordinary man, ' Who loft a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.' Ample documents, besides, are not wanting for those readers, whose curiosity will not be satisfied... | |
| Lewis Cass - 1841 - 226 страници
...His death was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the iianio, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." From Frederickshall, the King continued his route to Christiana, where he remained some time,... | |
| Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 страници
...certainly rich and merits detailed analysis. The final couplet, for instance, is justly celebrated: "He left the Name, at which the World grew pale. / To point a Moral, or adorn a Tale" (VHW 221-22). This coda contains two seemingly contradictory notions. On the one hand, the story... | |
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