 | 1843
...on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How inst liis iinoes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a...wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...dear-bought right convey To ruft on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundations stands the warrior's ses below herself from caprice. The truth must out...house P She is, in all probability, your wife's cou Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain. No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundations stands the warrior's powers, who Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain. No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845
...beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide....of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; 1 Menial lord — the lord of the menials, the steward of the household. O'er love, o'er fear, extends... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 797 pagina’s
...best comment on the life of that adventurous warrior : — " On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide...adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconqnered lord of pleasure and of pain;... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 271 pagina’s
...Hannibal, in thirty-two of his best and most memorable lines. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide;...domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain; No joys to him pacific scepters yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field; Behold surrounding... | |
 | Kristina Straub
...Foundation stands the Warrior's Pride?" (VHW 191). Charles' personality is the key to his entire career: A Frame of Adamant, a Soul of Fire, No Dangers fright...Domain, Unconquer'd Lord of Pleasure and of Pain; [ VHW 193-96] The above quatrain skillfully interweaves the image of the "Lord" with his "Domain."... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1915
...Concerning him, the poet's hyperbole about King Charles of Sweden might have been used with aptness : "A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire." His career was one of incessant toil and struggle, and service mainly for others. He... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 400 pagina’s
...Lonsdale, 1984. pp. 319-20. Cf. Critical commentary, p. 353. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide;...of fire. No dangers fright him and no labours tire . . . 'Think nothing gained,' he cries, 'till naught remains, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 302 pagina’s
...of Lead, more powerful than they, persuaded him to be quiet. On what Foundation stands the Warrior's Pride? How just his Hopes, let Swedish Charles decide;...Dangers fright him, and no Labours tire; O'er Love, o'er Force, extends his wide Domain, Unconquer'd Lord of Pleasure and of Pain; No Joys to him pacific Scepters... | |
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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... 
