...o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne, evil. * The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, 996 And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; 1000 The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear,...

...Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer : The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doomed him to...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. eviL The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...wisdom with each studious year, In meditation dwelt, vfith learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn...

...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...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doom'd him to...

...o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. Gibbon, the poet describes as • • • Deep and slowly exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doomed him to...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvn. ages, and of her. Night's daughter, Ignorance, hath...and wrap All round us ; we hut feel our way to err v;ith learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn...

...The allusion to Voltaire is very notable. The poet speaks of the great skeptic as one who — I 107. Shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony, — that master spell, Which stung his foes to wrath. At the close of the third canto Byron...

...Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doom'd him to...

...had taken leave of the work which had been for more than twenty years a part of his life. He there "exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious...severe, — Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer." Rousseau was born in Geneva, and after leaving it, when a boy, for his roving life in Savoy and France,...

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