 | Plutarch - Greece - 1811 - 352 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 dest'm'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand. He left the name, at which the world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait ; While Jadies interpose, and slaves debate. \ But did not Chance...hostile millions press him to the 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 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....mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarch* give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...vanrjuish'd hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands. Condemn'da m'edy suppliant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his eud? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...warrior's pride " is strikingly exemplified in the fate of " Swedish. Charles :" " His fall was deatin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands; Condemned a needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 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....? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival rnonarchs give the fatal wound ? \Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 314 pages
...wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend f • T)id 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...hero leaves his broken hands, 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 lefi .the name, at which the... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 538 pages
...hero leaves his broken band*, And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate....the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 11 Antigonus I., as we have stated in a former note, was killed at the battle of Ipsus; and... | |
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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... 
