 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance, at length, her errour mend :" Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did...wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? I His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, *l A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; \He left the... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 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... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 584 pages
...we might apply to him, with little change, the words of Johnson on the hero above mentioned : — " His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." By it'fwm the fatal blow was given was not perceived ; though the hand by which Cleon fell was... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - 1829 - 534 pages
...reconnoitering the works, at the siege of Fredericshall, in Norway. See Voltaire's Hutuire, (1764,) ii. 179. " His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Johnson, — ED. ' t To secure his election, he had embraced the Roman Catholic religion, a... | |
 | 1831 - 790 pages
...supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend T Did 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 a name at which the world... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands; Condemned a needy suppliant to wait, While ladies interpose and slaves debate....strand, A petty fortress and a dubious hand; He left a name at which the world grew pale. To point a moral or adorn a tale. [From London.] THE FATE OF POVERTY.... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance at length his error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end ?...hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barreu strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 496 pages
...hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands¿ Condemn'da needy suppliant to wait, While ladies interpose and slaves debate....the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale! Jolinsops. PTRRHUS. as he was beginning to recover from the blow. Zopyrus had drawn his Illyrian... | |
 | 1835 - 802 pages
...supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her crrour mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival...He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To poiut a moral, or adorn a tale.' MOTIVES TO PIETY. No argument appears more conclusive than that which... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - 1836 - 412 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....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... | |
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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... 
