 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 - 221 ページBritish poets 著 - 1809全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 ページ
...end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His rail was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress,...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompons woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 ページ
...rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was dest'm'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...the world grew pale' To point a moral, or adorn a tale! membrance of the fate of his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius, two... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 ページ
...hoftilc millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty forlrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. I do not recoiled any paffagc in the works of Pope, of greatrr energy and force of expivfliun,... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 ページ
...and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his eud? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 ページ
...The unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain. His death was destin'd to a foreign strand, A nameless fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral and adorn a tale." There is one pretty little epigram, " In puellam dictam Victoriam," which, in honour... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 ページ
...Genghis and his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 ページ
...Genghis and his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and ' He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 ページ
...warrior's pride " is strikingly exemplified in the fate of " Swedish. Charles :" " His fall was deatin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." The " protracted woes " of " protracted life," are pathetically enumerated, and the dark catalogue... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 314 ページ
...wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend f • T)id no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs...the world grew pale ! To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! got it, he rode off with it to his father, and cast it at his feet', as he was sitting with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 ページ
...did not Chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival rnonarchs give the fatal wound ? \Or hostile millions press...; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, * Ver. 147— 1€7- * O'er love or/oree. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. * All times their scenes... | |
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