Darius von Guttner Sporzynski (1971) Historian
The French Revolution (Nelson Modern History) p. 17 (Melbourne, 2016)
“Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow’d of the power in his eye
That bow’d the will.”
Source: Morte D'Arthur (1842), Lines 121-123
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