Historian, bard, philosopher, combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now... Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Seite 163von George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 329 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 Seiten
...things prone, — Now to o'ertkrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. UJ Voltaire and Gibbon. CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...him to the zealot's ready Hell, Which answers to all doubts so eloquently well. cvm. Yet, peace be with their ashes, — for by them, If merited, the penalty... | |
| Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 Seiten
...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throiif. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fe;ir And doom'd him to the zealot's ready Hell, Which answers to all doubts so eloquently well. CVIH.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 Seiten
...Bichardson, Rousseau und Goethe. Jena 1875, p. 266). tiber Gibbon aussert sich Byron aaO. Str. 107 so : The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each stndious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,... | |
| 1904 - 884 Seiten
...of intellectual pride, of the spirit which Byron ascribes to Gibbon when he pictures him asSapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony,— that master-spell, i!and It may be as a "terrible and fiery finger, shrivelling falsehoods from the souls of men." As... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 Seiten
...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.1 The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,1 And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, i. concentering thought And gathering wisdom . — [MS.] 1. [In his youth Voltaire was imprisoned for... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 594 Seiten
...to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.1 cvu. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,L And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, i. concentering thought And gathering wisdom . — [MS.) I. [In his youth Voltaire was imprisoned for... | |
| United States. Congress - 1899 - 182 Seiten
...opportunity. He was a tireless student, an indefatigable investigator, a close observer, a clear thinker — Deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. Possessed of the richest stores of information on almost all public questions, he never'wasted them... | |
| 1901 - 548 Seiten
...allusions contained in, the following passages : — Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued. Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; — The...irony, that master-spell Which stung his foes to wrath. This makes the mad men who have made men mad By their contagion ! The part of Philip's son was thine,... | |
| Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 Seiten
...of religion, appealed to Gibbon as a logical and inevitable consequence. Byron described him as — "Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony — that master-spell." The very solemnity of his sneer made it a dangerous weapon in the hands of active enemies of Christianity... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 584 Seiten
...o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.1 CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,L And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, L concentering thought And gathering wisdom . — [MS.] 1. [In his youth Voltaire was imprisoned for... | |
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