 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 str.
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs and a dubious hand ; He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale *. 51. Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, As the fmall... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 str.
...monarchs give the fatal wound i _ Or hostile millions press him to the ground 1 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. . — *-'** All times their... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 str.
...themselves of so much of his kingdom as they had any pretensions to claim." 30. His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand;'} He was shot at the siege of Frederickshall, Dec. ist, 1718. 30. All times their scenes of pompous wots... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 str.
...The unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain. His death was destined to a foreign strand, A nameless fortress, and a dubious hand : He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale. Swedenborg's Muse, however, was not confined to gravities. The majority... | |
 | 1797 - 514 str.
...have the pleafure of approaching her. review of her character, we may exclaim with Doftor Johnfon, She left a name at which the world grew pale, To paint a Moral, or adorn a Tale.— The prefent Emperor of Ruffia is now in the forty-third year of his age. His chief... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 str.
...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 hand ; \ He left the name at which the world grew palej \ To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 str.
...moharchs 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...; He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.* Two succeeding passages, in this fourth epistle, the first, at line... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 str.
...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 hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. * All times their scenes... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1807 - 470 str.
...Do you remember the four concluding lines, that describe Charles's death ? " His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, •" A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; " He left the aame, at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." There is another relic,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 str.
...uncertainty which so often waits on the deaths of sovereigns. Dr. Johnson justly says of Charles XII. " Hii 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." The palaces in Sweden,... | |
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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. 
