 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...  Specimens of the British poets - Page 221by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - 1808 - 342 pages
...are victorious than it is to the vanquifhed." Then he paid his refpects to Helenus in a very obliging He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! jobnfoii. * Antigonuv the Firft was killed at the battle of Ipfus, and Demetrius the Firft long... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day ; Tne Vmiquiali'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 talc,. * All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...nwnnrchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'd And rich men riock from all ihe world around ; Yet...but a name That leaves our useful product still the tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. Ivt gay... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 pages
...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...the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." The palaces in Sweden, though numerous enough, are less splendid or magnificent than I 'have... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 pages
...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 ; ....the world grew pale, To point a- moral, or adorn a tale. My lord DOUNE (the present earl of MORAY) did me the honour to correspond with me, long after... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall wasde*tin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the wurld grew pale. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. ]i All times tneir seen esof pompous woes aSurd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...Did no subverted empire mark His end ? Did1 rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile million; press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a cl'ibkras hand ; He left the name, at- which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...bitter potion, which he was to drain from it. Says Johnson, speaking of Charles the twelfth of Sweden, He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • By the world is intended here its inhabitants. 4. The name of a place is often substituted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait ; While Jadies interpose, and slaves debate. \ But did not Chance...strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He l«ft the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarch* give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All limes their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
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