 | Juvenal - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...? — His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand : He left that Name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. Jam tenet Italiani : tamen ultnl pergere tendit : " Actum," inquit, " nihil est, nist Pceno milite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 750
...ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and в dubious hand ; He left a 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... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...Frederickshall, a frontier-town of Norway, rendered memorable by the tragical death of Charles XII., who there " left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Mr. Wilson's description of his journey to this celebrated place is animated and picturesque.... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...Frederickshall, a frontier-town of Norway, rendered memorable by the tragical death of Charles XII., who there " left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Mr. Wilson's description of his journey to this celebrated place is animated and picturesque.... | |
 | Oxonian - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...very cruel consideration. CHAP. VI. ! 5t.'t.. ' ' ST. HELENA. NAPOLEON. A SAVOURY REPAST. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.—JOHNSON. To the reflection, with which, the preceding chapter ended, the writer replied, It... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...sons, of no more value than are now the bulletins of the phantasmagoria Chieftain, who " — left that name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Yours, &c. HAMS HIJORNOR. Mr. URBAN, Leicester, Feb. II. I AM sorry I cannot coincide with your... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...Johnson, — " His lull was destined to a villain's hand, " Upon a savage and a barren strand, " Leaving the name, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, and adorn a tale." •Amongst the turrets of Alexandria, seen at a distance in our engraving, the most... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...in a compass, so restricted as ours, any other reflection upon this extraordinary man, ' Who loft a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.' Ample documents, besides, are not wanting for those readers, whose curiosity will not be satisfied... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...generosity had formed ; to whom may be applied, with a slight alteration, the lines composed by Johnson for Charles of Sweden — His fate was destined to...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. THE END OF IVANHOE NOTES AND GLOSSARY NOTES CHAPTER XXIX Note F, p. 99. — HERALDRY THE author... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...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. 1 Pultowa A crushing defeat inflicted on Charles XII in 1 709 by the forces of Peter the Great... | |
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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. 
