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Classic Latin Course in English - Page 291
by William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1893 - 298 pages
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...mark his end? Did rival monarch* give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All limes their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His rail was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress,...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompons woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay...
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, Volume 3

Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was dest'm'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...the world grew pale' To point a moral, or adorn a tale! membrance of the fate of his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius, two...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pages
...hoftilc millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty forlrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. I do not recoiled any paffagc in the works of Pope, of greatrr energy and force of expivfliun,...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...mark his end ? Did rival 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 l«ft the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pages
...hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deiftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fonrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pair, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 1 1 do not recollect any pafiage in the works of Pope, of...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 2

Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...mark his eud? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson. better than before; but still you are deficient; for you should have taken off that...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...The unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of 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...
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Letters on India

Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...Genghis and his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly...
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Letters on India

Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 pages
...Genghis and his generals, who had already possessed themselves of Cabul, Candahar and Multan ; and ' He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale. For AH 628*, being surprised by a party of Moguls, he disappeared, and nothing is known certainly...
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