 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 428 pages
...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...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. . — *-'** All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, Prom Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's... | |
 | English poetry - 1789 - 228 pages
...wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance1 at length her error mend [ Pid no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shews his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shews his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shews his miseries in distant lands ; Qondemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? 4. £ Hi* fall was destin'd to a barren strand, t- A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shews his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait ; While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....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... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 500 pages
...Condemned a needy mpplicant to wait ; 'While ladies int«rp/>se, and slaves debate. But did not chanct, at length, her error mend ; Did no subverted empire...press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a foreign strand; A petty -fortress, and a dubious hand ; . He left the name at which the world grew... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 pages
...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,...the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." The palaces in Sweden, though numerous enough, are less splendid or magnificent than I 'have... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...nwnnrchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'd And rich men riock from all ihe world around ; Yet...but a name That leaves our useful product still the tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord. Ivt gay... | |
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Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day : The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance at length her error mend... 
