 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,...  Juvenal - Pagina 223di Juvenal - 1837 - 58 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pagine
...hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, * Ver. 147— 1€7- * O'er love or/oree. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. * All times their...Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barb'rous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 314 pagine
...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 ! got it, he rode off with it to his father, and cast it at his feet', as he was sitting with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pagine
...Th' encumber'd oar icaice leaves the dreaded coall, • Through purple billows and a floating hoft. . He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • . ;« The bold Bavarian, in a lucklefs hour, f Tries the dread fummits of Cefarean pow'r,... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1816 - 404 pagine
...last farewel to the present generation, and may be said to belong already to history. " He leaves a name at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." T 3 YOU You desire me to give you a sketch of the character of this extraordinary personage... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pagine
...the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He lefi .the name, at which the world grew pale,' To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their soenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pagine
...dubious hand ; He left' the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale, t All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From...Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barb'rpus pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey,... | |
 | Adam Neale - 1818 - 346 pagine
...King of Poland, and like many other of his predecessors and successors, •. •* • i " He left a name at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." / * i * But perhaps the head of Cara Mustapha might be of greater use to the Austrians, would... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pagine
...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...Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility and barb'rous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, And starves... | |
 | Catherine Talbot - 1819 - 414 pagine
...Johnson in his application of the Satirist's character of Hannibal, to that of Charles xn. of Sweden. " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Essay xir. 147 to stand on those gems, in the midst of the earth, the sun and moon, seem to... | |
 | 1853 - 1162 pagine
...linellau ar farwelaeth SinrU XII., nid oe« ond ilirii yn unig yn ymgedi i fawrhydi barddae, 41 He k ft a name at which the world grew pale. To point a moral or adorn a tale." V и у rhai hyn, cawn elfenati nchaf barddon«eth ; ond y maent yn scfyll ar eu penau ea hiinain,... | |
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