 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 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; 230 Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 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,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes 1 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 try'd, till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted e stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft list'ning how the ho soothe his pride no more; Fresh praise is try'd till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 68 pages
...( 19 ) In gay Hoftility, and barb'rous Pride, With half Mankind embattled at his Side, Great Xerxes comes to feize the certain Prey, And ftarves exhaufted...o'er, Till counted Myriads footh his Pride no more ; Frefti Praife is try'd till Madnefs fires his Mind, The Waves he lafhes, and enchains the Wind ;... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves exhausted clined; Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, 185 And, in all changes, th sooth his pride no more; 230 tale, RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY The waves he lashes, and enchains... | |
 | James Roach - 1793 - 274 pages
...mankind embattled at his fidr, Great Xerxes comes to feizc the certain prey, And flarves exhaufled regions in his way ; Attendant Flatt'ry counts his myriads o'er, Till counted myriads foothhis pride no more ; Frefli praife is try'd till madnefs fires his mind, The waves he lames, and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 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,... | |
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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. 
