 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs and a dubious hand ; He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale *. 51. Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, As the fmall pebble ftirs the peaceful... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 410 pages
...His fall was deftin'd to a barren flrand, s A petty fortrel's, and a dubious hand ; He left the nanK, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All h times their fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1784 - 446 pages
...hoftile miUions prefs him to the ground? His fall was duiin'd to a bnrren ftrand, •f- A petty fortrcis, 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 fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Periia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1785 - 222 pages
...fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prcfs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the woild grew pale ; To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All I times their fcenes of pompous woes afford,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prels him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All * times their fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Pcrfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...fatal wound? Or hoftile millions prels him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand; He left the...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All * times their fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1789 - 248 pages
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrafs, 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 fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pages
...hostile millions press him to the ground 1 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. . — *-'** All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, Prom Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the...the world grew pale. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All * times their fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1790 - 500 pages
...Johnfon, in thofe energetic lines, which thus conclude the character of the Swedijh Charles ; *' Who left the name, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." De Foe was fo little difturbed by the appearance of The Moon Calf, or accurate reflections on... | |
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His fall was destined 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. 
