 | Samuel Johnson - 1789 - 248 pages
...ladies interpofe, and flaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no fubverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrafs,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...ladies interpofe, and flaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no fubverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs,... | |
 | John Adams - 1792 - 382 pages
...concluding Hnes defcribes his death. « His faJl was difliu'd to a barren (Irani), • ff A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; " He left the name at which the world grew pale, « To point a moral, or adorn a Ule." WRAXHAL. SECT. XXVII. t .OF PETERSBURG. AD 1774THIS great capital, though only a creation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...ladies interpofe, and flaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no fubvertcd empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground > His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs,... | |
 | William Belsham - 1793 - 396 pages
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand : He left that name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. JOHNSON'S Im. of Juv. Sat. id. fhe really derived from the pofleffion of thefe detached and remote... | |
 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - 1794 - 406 pages
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was dcflin-d to a barren iha;id, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand He left the name at which the world grew pale, * Antigonus, and that of his father Demetrius, two inftances in his own houfe of the mutability of... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...ladies intcrpofe, and (laves debate. Bot did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no fubvcrted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prcfs him to the ground ? His fall was dcflin'd to a barren Itrand, A petty fortrels,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...the ground ? His fall was.deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He k ft 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 gay... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 514 pages
...Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamat'to fias ! "Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Mceror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumftances of fome great... | |
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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... 
