 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...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 talc,. * All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...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. In gay hostility, and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...says of Charles 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'd to a barren strand,. A petty fortress, and a dubious ount our gains : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...press him to the 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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...bitter potion, which he was to drain from it. Says Johnson, speaking of Charles the twelfth of Sweden, He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • By the world is intended here its inhabitants. 4. The name of a place is often substituted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...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...Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...press him to the ground ? His rail was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale,...moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompons woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous pride,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...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. All limes their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...press him to 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... | |
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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 fall was destined to a barren strand,... 
