 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 páginas
...to Ibe baneful eft'ccls of nocturnal air. • Arclibidinn of Canterbury; bebeadfdonTower-hill, 1615. 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 just bis hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 438 páginas
...war's unequal game, When- wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgaged states their grandsires wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt ; Wreaths' which at last the dear bought right convey, To rust on medals, or on stones decay." S, JOHNSON'S Vanity of Human Wishes.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 438 páginas
...war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgaged states their grandsires wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt ; Wreaths' which at last the dear bought right convey, To ru«t on medals, or on stones decay." S. JOHNSON'S Vanity of Human WiAetmaining,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 442 páginas
...war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgaged states their grandsires wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; . Wreaths' which at last the dear bought right convey, To rust on medals, or on stones decay." S. JOHNSON'S Vanity of Human Wishts.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 páginas
...unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name ; And mortgaged states their grandsires'wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt ; Wreaths...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. * See Gent. Mag. Vol. LXVIII. p. 951. 1027. t Ver. 133—146. ' This was first written "iSee, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 páginas
...war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths, regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right conj vey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How... | |
 | 1817 - 314 páginas
...name, And mortgag'd states their grandsires wreaths reFro>ri as;e to age in everlasting 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 just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 páginas
...only, and who " bear the bloody standard of ambition/'-f- These evanescent glories may be called " Wreaths, which at last the dear-bought right convey, " To rust on medals, or on stones decay. "J After the reduction of Mont-Orgueil castle, Harliston had the government of Jersey conferred on... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name ; And mortgag'd states their grandsires' wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 páginas
...War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name ; And mortgag'd states their gran dsires' wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. t On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A... | |
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This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires... 
