 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...end ? Bid 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,...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 lord. In gay... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...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,...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 lord. In gay... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 378 pages
...end ? ' . Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground F His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious band. He left the name at which the world grew pale, • • • To point a moral, or adorn a tale1... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...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,...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 lord. In gay... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 504 pages
...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, and a dubious...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 520 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...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, 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:... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1827 - 472 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
