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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. - Page 158
by Collection - 1758
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...miseries in distant lands; 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 bis end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait ; While Jadies 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...
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, Volume 3

Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...miseries in distant lands: 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...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 2

Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...his miseries in distant lands. Condemn'da m'edy suppliant to wait, While ladies interpose, 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 millions press him...
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Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And fhows his miferies in diftant lands : Condemn'da needy fupplicant to wait, While ladies interpofe, and flaves debate....wound, Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren, ftrand, A petty fonrds and a dubious Hand ; All times their fcenes...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3

Plutarch - 1816 - 314 pages
...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 give the fatal wound > Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress,...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author ...

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...miseries in distant lands; Condemned a 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...
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ...

1817 - 314 pages
...miseries in distant lands ; 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...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 3

Plutarchus - 1819 - 538 pages
...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, A petty fortress,...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'd, a 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...
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