 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 lehte
...ground ? His fall was deslin'd to a barren strand,. A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left : this wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. Ivt gay... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 lehte
...XII. " Hii fall was destined 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." The palaces in Sweden, though numerous enough, are less splendid or magnificent than I 'have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 lehte
...ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a cl'ibkras hand ; He left the name, at- which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. '-' All timestheirscenesof pompous woesaffbrd, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord! In gay hostility and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 lehte
...ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He l«ft the name, at 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. In gay hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 lehte
...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. All limes their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 lehte
...the ground? His fall was dest'm'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! membrance of the fate of his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius, two... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 lehte
...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. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
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His fall was destined 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. 
