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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. "
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Página 282
por Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 páginas
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 páginas
...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 hostility,...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volumen4

John Dryden - 1811 - 628 páginas
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deiftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fonrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pair, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 1 1 do not recollect any pafiage in the works of Pope, of...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volumen2

Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 páginas
...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. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 páginas
...unconquer'd lord of 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...
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Letters on India

Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 páginas
...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...
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Letters on India

Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 páginas
...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...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 574 páginas
...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...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1814 - 574 páginas
...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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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volumen6

Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 páginas
...and abandoned by his chieftaius : tie drops his sword, abdicates his tlirouc, ' And leaves a liMiie, at which the world grew pale, ' To point a moral, or adorn a tale.' ART. 14. — The prospect of perpetual and universal Peace; a Ihanksfiviiisr Sermon, f>rt!te...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...in the fate of " Swedish. Charles :" " His fall was deatin'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." The " protracted woes " of " protracted life," are pathetically enumerated, and the dark catalogue...
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