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 - Page 163by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
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...Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...sneer; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which strung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear: And doomed him to the zealot's ready Hell, Which answers... | |
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