 | Mary Tighe - 2005 - 390 sayfa
...Caroline Hamilton into NLI MS 4810. 2. A quotation from Samuel Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes (1749): "He left the name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral, or adorn a tale" (line 221). 3. See Isaiah 55.2: "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 sayfa
...himself and Charles of Sweden (his equivalent for Hannibal) their measure of uncompromised grandeur: He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (221-2) Dryden (who admittedly omits the contemptuous mention of the Subura, perhaps misled by... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 sayfa
...in some of the best lines of Johnson himself ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"): His fate was destined to a barren 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,15 where the effect is due to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2006 - 574 sayfa
...Johnson for Charles of SwedenHis fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and an "humble" hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. www.ReadHowYouWant.com You can buy our Large Type and EasyRead books from our www.ReadHo wYouWant.com... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2006 - 418 sayfa
...Johnson for Charles of SwedenHis fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and an "humble" hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. www.ReadHowYouWant.com You can buy our Large Type and EasyRead books from ourwww.ReadHowYouWant.com... | |
 | Jerome McGann - 2006 - 252 sayfa
...a concealed reference to Byron. When Scott ends by (mis)quoting Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes," He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. one can scarcely not recall Byron, as "rash and romantic" — these are Scott's words — as... | |
 | M. B. Synge - 2013 - 237 sayfa
...nations were in advance of all others in the art of shipbuilding. 49. CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN. " He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." — JOHNSON. RUSSIA — the largest State in Europe — took no part in public affairs. She... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 sayfa
...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. In the last example Juvenal's series "non gladii, non saxa . . . nee tela" inspired Johnson's series... | |
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His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
