 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 454 pages
...ambition, which, in him, there is every probability, as in the great Charles of Sweden, " Will leave a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale." Adieu, LETTER XLIV. REV. TS WHALLEY. Lichjield, Oct. 7, 1799. I AM recently returned from my summer's... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pages
...him to 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...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. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...and of pain. His death was destin'd to a foreign strand, A nameless fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral and adorn a tale." There is one pretty little epigram, " In puellam dictam Victoriam," which, in honour of her most gracious... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 pages
...Genghis 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... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...Genghis 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... | |
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He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
