...for invincibility shot to pieces, was reduced to becoming a mere excuse for sententious reflection: He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale.4* Both are equally harsh on those who yearn for a long life, Juvenal is funnier on the...

...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*. Two fucceeding pafTages, in this fourth epiftle, the firft, at line 237, on the ernptinefs...

...Caroline Hamilton into NLI MS 4810. 2. A quotation from Samuel Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes (1749): "He left the name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral, or adorn a tale" (line 221). 3. See Isaiah 55.2: "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?...

...himself and Charles of Sweden (his equivalent for Hannibal) their measure of uncompromised grandeur: He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (221-2) Dryden (who admittedly omits the contemptuous mention of the Subura, perhaps...

...Wishes"): His fate was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale,15 where the effect is due to a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in...

...whom may be applied, with a slight alteration, the lines composed by Johnson for Charles of SwedenHis fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress...at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. www.ReadHowYouWant.com You can buy our Large Type and EasyRead books from ourwww.ReadHowYouWant.com...

...whom may be applied, with a slight alteration, the lines composed by Johnson for Charles of SwedenHis fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress...at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. www.ReadHowYouWant.com You can buy our Large Type and EasyRead books from our www.ReadHo...

...a concealed reference to Byron. When Scott ends by (mis)quoting Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes," He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. one can scarcely not recall Byron, as "rash and romantic" — these are Scott's words...

...press him to the Ground? 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. [191-219] It is true that the versification is exceptionally dignified. Parallelism and...

...nations were in advance of all others in the art of shipbuilding. 49. CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN. " He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." — JOHNSON. RUSSIA — the largest State in Europe — took no part in public affairs....