 | British poets - 1822 - 320 דפים
...hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the...To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay hostility, and barbarous... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 504 דפים
...hostile millions 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 ' struck with terror. His hands trembled, and between his desire to give the stroke, and the confusion... | |
 | 1822 - 520 דפים
...is somewhat to be commended, much to be admired, more to be* condemned, and all to be wondered at. " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." No. II. HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN CAROLINE. IN presenting to the public a memoir of the late Queen,... | |
 | 1822 - 520 דפים
...is somewhat to be commended, much to be admired, more to be condemned, and all to be wondered at. " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." 220 No. II. HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN CAROLINE. - . IN presenting to the public a memoir of the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 דפים
...Charles of Sweden — His fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and an " humble" hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn :i TALE. THE MONASTERY; A ROMANCE. INTKODUCTORY EPISTLE FROM CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK, OF HIS MAJESTY'S... | |
 | 1843 - 684 דפים
...ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand : He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale."» * Vanity of Human Wishes: In Imitation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal. The reader will, perhaps,... | |
 | 1827 - 472 דפים
...sunbeam. Frederickshall possesses no other attraction than tii.it which is derived from him, " Who left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Although contrary to the usual practice, yet I found little difficulty in prevailing on the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 328 דפים
...Charles of Sweden — His fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and an " humble" hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a mortal and adorn a TALE. ... | |
 | 1823 - 816 דפים
...career of a man, of whom, more than any other who had ever lived, it might be said, " He left that name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale :" and, with the conclusions now drawn from the history of this extraordinary man, as well as... | |
 | Hans Christoph Ernst Freiherr von Gagern - 1823 - 248 דפים
...n>ab,r, »omit bie engltf^J minified elle Settling juerfl feinen £ob anzeigte: • He leaves that name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. • , Slllein tie Gegebenheiten waren fo »erroídPelt, unb wieber fo abgeändert , baß tiid)t... | |
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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. 
