 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 568 pages
...war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgag'd lands their grandsires wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt...false glory, that gild the fatal conflicts of restless ambitkm. Mrs Granville shewed me Jenny Harry's apologetic tract on quitting our church in favour of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...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 - 1811 - 202 pages
...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 - 442 pages
...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.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 438 pages
...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 - 438 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...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 - Jersey - 1817 - 410 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
