 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...fate of Charlrs the Twelfth, or llie following verses that describe it: On what foundation stands ihe warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a sonl of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...not fated to return. His story is too truly told in the most poetic lines Dr. Johnson ever wrote. . " A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire. O'er love and fear extends his wide domain, The unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...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...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...less powerful muse. " A frame of adamant,—« soul of fire ; .No dangers fright him, or no labours tire, O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain." Possibly our poet may have little pleasure in treading in any path where others have been before him.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
