| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 Seiten
...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 pebble ftirs the... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 Seiten
...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 of these juvenile poems consists... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 Seiten
...tenth Satire : 1, demens, & fevas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias : He left that name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale. Dr. Johnfon. The latter of thefe lines is excellent, the former infipidly profaic, and made only for... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 514 Seiten
...curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamat'to fias ! "Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Mceror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumftances of... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 506 Seiten
...curre per Alp^, Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias ! Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Moeror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumftances of... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1803 - 548 Seiten
...curre per Alpes, lit pucris placeas, ct declamatio has ! Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, And left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 10. Maeror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation of all the circumflances of... | |
| Joseph Sansom - 1805 - 494 Seiten
...an open Press for the amusement of idle Curiosity, leaving, as Pope said of the ferocious Swede, " a name at "which the World grew pale " To point a moral, or adorn a tale" But we were soon overtaken by our returning Messenger, who brought us word that the... | |
| Anna Seward - 1811 - 464 Seiten
...ambition, which, in him, there is every probability, as in the great Charles of Sweden, " Will leave a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, and adorn a tale." Adieu. LETTER XLIV. RET. TS WHALLEY. Lichfield, Oct. 7, 1799I AH recently returned from my summer's... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 Seiten
...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 of her most gracious... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 574 Seiten
...least in 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... | |
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