...monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious...He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To poiut a moral, or adorn a tale.' MOTIVES TO PIETY. No argument appears more conclusive than that which...

...wound, Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? — His fall was destin'd to a barren strandt A petty fortress, and a dubious hand : He left the...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Richard. And now I want to know something about the two Sobieskis, who were taken prisoners to...

...century earlier; and of Frederic, like Charles the Twelfth, it might then have been asserted, that " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." September. — I passed a part of the autumn at Paris. The affair of the diamond necklace, which...

...century earlier; and of Frederic, like Charles the Twelfth, it might then have been asserted, that " He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." September. — I passed a part of the autumn at Paris. The affair of the diamond necklace, which...

...century earlier; and of Frederic, like Charles the Twelfth, it might then have been asserted, that " He left the 'name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." September. — I passed a part of the autumn at Paris. The affair of the diamond necklace, which...

...delay; Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day: The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken bands, And shews his miseries in distant lands; Condemn'da needy supplicant...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.1 In this compendious yet concise historical sketch, Johnson manages, while hewing fairly close...

...certainly rich and merits detailed analysis. The final couplet, for instance, is justly celebrated: "He left the Name, at which the World grew pale. / To point a Moral, or adorn a Tale" (VHW 221-22). This coda contains two seemingly contradictory notions. On the one hand, the story...

...day: The vanquished hero leaves his broken bands, And shows his miseries in distant lands; Condemned a needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose,...the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 1 Pultowa A crushing defeat inflicted on Charles XII in 1 709 by the forces of Peter the Great...

...reverses, however, when the titanic Charles XII is reduced to a piece of writing — this piece of writing: "He left the Name, at which the World grew pale,/ To point a Moral, or adorn a Tale" (221-222). The career of the hero shrivels into motifs of print — just like the career of an...

...for 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. Chapter I A Resurrection rvichard Coeur de Lion, the King of England, stared down at the fallen...