 On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...  Latin Classics ... - Page 221by William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 314 pages
...views and conduct of Buonaparte (1806): May it likewise characterize his fate ! — Servetw adimum. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Char'es decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, . Xo dangers fright him, and no labours tire. O'er... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...Swedifh Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a foul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleafure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific fceptres yield, War founds the trump, he ru(hes to the... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...debt; [gret, Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. , *On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How juet his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 538 pages
...Twelfth, or the following verses which describe them, extracted from Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes :' On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire. O'er love, o'er fear extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...everlasting debt ; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pages
...imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal, begins his character of Charles XII. of Sweden in these words : " On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide." V. 9-10. This any man may sing or say, P th' ditty called, " What if a day ?"] The words alluded to... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...th' enormous weight \Why but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulphs below? On what foundation stands the warrior's pride. How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extetids his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...debt ; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. t On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain... | |
 | Thomas Pruen - 1820 - 348 pages
...inverted commas. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride ? How just his hopes, " Napoleon may" decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain ; Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of... | |
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