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. The Life of Daniel Defoe - الصفحة 245بواسطة Thomas Wright - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 432عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1784 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...ground? His fall was duiin'd to a bnrren ftrand, •f- A petty fortrcis, and a dubious hand ; He left 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 Periia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...ground ? His fall was dettin'd to a barren (trand, A petty fortrefs, 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 fcenes of pompous woes afford, From Perlia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left 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 Pcrfia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. In... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand; He left 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrafs, and a dubious hand ; He left 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... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...monarchs give the fatal wound i _ Or hostile millions press him to the ground 1 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 times their... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...themselves of so much of his kingdom as they had any pretensions to claim." 30. His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand;'} He was shot at the siege of Frederickshall, Dec. ist, 1718. 30. All times their scenes of pompous wots... | |
| English poets - 1790 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left 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... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1790 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...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... | |
| John Adams - 1792 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...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... | |
| |