 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...flands the warrior's pride, How jult his hopes, let Swedifh Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a foul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire;...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... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 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...fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extetids his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 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...tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain ; IVo joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump,... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 504 pages
...here to forget the obscure fate of Charles the Twelfth, or the following verses that describe it : — On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How...tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure, and of pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield. War sounds the trump,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...[regret, TVreaths which at last the dear bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundatio'n stands the warrior's pride, How...tire; O'er love, o'er fear extends his wide domain, TJnconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump,... | |
 | Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...not given but to my lord." — It alludes to the influence which the rich and men in power possess. " O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain. " Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain." JoHNSON. " So when a tyger sucks the bullock's blood, " A famish 'd lion, issuing from the wood, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 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...Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacifick sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...everlasting deht ; Wreathswhichatlast the dear-hought 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 lahours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear extends his wide domarn, Unconqner'd lord of pleasure and of pain... | |
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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... 
