| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 страници
...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. *A11 times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| Samuel Taylor Johnson - 1825 - 508 страници
...hostile mill ions 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. yAll times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 страници
...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. • yAll times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
| 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
| 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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