 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...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 substituted... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...prefs 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 expivfliun,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...press 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, two... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...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 lord. In gay... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...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. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...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 known certainly... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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 known certainly... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...pleasure 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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...the spirit of Johnson, that Art. 13. Suonaparie, a Poem. 8vo. is. 6d. Murray. 1814. «« He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Many years must elapse before the history of this wonder and horror of our days can be dispassionately... | |
 | 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...itself," and will tell us, if not in the words, at least in the spirit of Johnson, that " He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." Many years must elapse before the history of this wonder and horror of our days can be dispassionately... | |
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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. 
