 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 strani
...Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble government,...populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of finking dates. When publick villany, too ftrong for juftice, Shews his bold front, the harbinger of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 strani
...Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. . A feeble government,...populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of finking ftates. When publick villany, too ftrong for juftice, Shews his bold front, the harbinger of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 strani
...Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble government,...populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of finking dates. When publick villany, too ftrong for juftict, Shews his bold front, the harbinger of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 strani
...Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold lit. ' A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles> And all the maladies of finking ftates. When publick Villainy, too ftrong for juftice, Shews his bold front, the harbinger... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 878 strani
...France fliewed all thefe marks of declination long ago to fkilful obfervers : A thoufand A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it : A feeble government,...populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of unking Rates : as fays Demetrius in Dr. Johnfon's play, when his friend in the firft fcene arraigns... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 542 strani
...kingdom of France fhewed all thefe marks of declination long, ago to fkilful obfervers: A thoufandhorrid prodigies foretold it: A feeble government,, eluded...populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of finking ftates ; as fays Demetrius in Dr. Johnfon's play, when his friend in the firft fcene arraigns... | |
 | 1796 - 524 strani
...complaint of his friend, that no prodigy from Heaven. had foretold the calamities of Greece : A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it; A feeble government,...populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of finking fiâtes. When public Villainy, too ftrong forjuftice, Shows h is bold front, the harbinger... | |
 | 1796 - 512 strani
...complaint of his friend, that no prodigy from Heaven had foretold the calamities of Greece : A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold It ; A feeble government,...A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the ma'adies of (inking ftat«. When public Villainy, too ftrdng forjufticc, Shows h it bold front, the... | |
 | 1797 - 618 strani
...revolution,—- APJ>. KEY. Vot. JEXIII. O o " Thest " These were the prodigies that told its fate, A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace,...luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking states." JOHNSON'S If, However, we may credit the publication which now claims our notice, the real causes of... | |
 | 1797 - 448 strani
...to the shade, Bsheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. Dim. A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble...eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, Aiid all the maladies of sinking states. Wuen public villany, too strong for justice, Shows his bold... | |
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A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it ; A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking states. 
