 The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed...  The Port Folio - Side 1561817Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1893 - 868 sider
...the public. It reminds us of what Byron says of Gibbon, comparing him with Voltaire : Theother.deep and slow, exhausting thought. And hiving wisdom with...wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe. Mr. Campbell does not indeed "sap a solemn creed with solemn sneer," in a religious sense, but he comes... | |
 | Harriet D. S. Mackenzie - 1895 - 620 sider
...combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents ; but his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne." CHAPTER XVIII. RISING OF THE STORM FROM FRANCE. [AD 1789 TO 1798.] IN 1789 the great storm was rising... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 sider
...philosopher, combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Protens of their talents: But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. Dass Byron gerade um diese Zeit sich eingehend mit Voltaire beschaftigt hat, beweist das nach einer... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 sider
...Juan (see Life, Appendix, p. 809), and lashes •• the school " secuncium artetn.] cv1. Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...prone, — 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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 594 sider
...Canto of Don Juan (sec Life, Appendix, p. 809), and lashes " the school " sccundum artem.] Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...prone, — Now 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1899 - 182 sider
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 sider
...combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1903 - 234 sider
...and his mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. He could praise Voltaire too, whose wit, like the wind, " blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — now to o'er throw a fool, and now to shake a throne." But it enraged him that Napoleon should be compared... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 sider
...combined ; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed m or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the other,2 deep and slow, exhausting thought, > Voltaire. 'GibboQ. And hiving wisdom with each year, In... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 584 sider
...Canto of Don Juan (see Life, Appendix, p. 809), and lashes " the school " secundum artem.] Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...prone, — Now to 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... | |
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