 | Plutarch - Greece - 1823 - 448 pages
...his end ? Did rival monarchy give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress,...the world grew pale. To point a moral, or adorn a taie J JOHNSON. * Antigonus the First was killed at the battle of Ipsiis, and Denaetrius the First... | |
 | Hans Christoph Ernst Freiherr von Gagern - Europe - 1823 - 248 pages
...n>ab,r, »omit bie engltf^J minified elle Settling juerfl feinen £ob anzeigte: • He leaves that name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. • , Slllein tie Gegebenheiten waren fo »erroídPelt, unb wieber fo abgeändert , baß tiid)t... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1823 - 328 pages
...Charles of Sweden — His fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and an " humble" hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a mortal and adorn a TALE. ... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...career of a man, of whom, more than any other who had ever lived, it might be said, " He left that name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale :" and, with the conclusions now drawn from the history of this extraordinary man, as well as... | |
 | Susan Linn De Witt - 1823 - 496 pages
...of the life of Joseph's once proud and formidable brother, suggested much reflection. " Who left a name at which the world grew pale. To point a' moral, or adorn a tale." At Bordentown our travellers entered another steam-boat, and proceeded down the river Delaware,... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a harren stand, A petty fortress, and a duhious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale, All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord. In gay... | |
 | Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - Genealogy - 1824 - 370 pages
...reflect in solitude on his own treachery, and on the " mutability of all human affairs ;" " Leaving a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale." When Buonaparte first arrived in Italy, he entertained most imperfect notions, with regard j... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1901 - 420 pages
...Charles of Sweden — His fate was destined to a foreign strand, A petty fortress and an ' humble ' hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a TALE. THE END OF IVANHOE NOTES AND GLOSSARY NOTES CHAPTER XXIX Note F, p. 99. — HERALDRY THE author has been... | |
 | Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...conservative in its moral and religious outlook. Burns, like 'Swedish Charles' in that poem, had . . . left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. It was impossible for Scott to overlook the grim lesson which, he felt, was to be learned from... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...that once extended over thousands of miles and men now requires the space of a grave. He leaves only "the Name, at which the World grew pale, /To point a Moral, or adorn a Tale" (111-11). The once terrible warrior now is contained in a homily. Johnson's ultimate target and... | |
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His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
