 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads sooth his pride no more; 230 Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads sooth his pride no more ; Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes, and... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more ; Fresh praise is tried, till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize tho certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more ; Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, Tho waves he lashes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 76 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way. Attendant flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more. 230 Fresh praise is try'd, till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way. Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads sooth his pride no more ; 230 Fresh praise is try'd till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more ; Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 488 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way. Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more ; 230 Fresh praise is try'd till madness fires his mind, — The waves he... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes came to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way; Attendant flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads soothe his pride no more ; Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted regions in his way ; Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads sooth his pride no more ; 230 Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
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... 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. 
