 The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer...  The British Critic: A New Review - Page 6121816Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 308 pages
...listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvii The other3, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving* wisdom...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 !iim... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...to man ; Some sinister intent taints all he does. 2409 Yonng : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 711 And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. 2410 Byron: Ch. Harola. Canto iii. St. 10/ INFIDELITY, PERSONAL — sec Frailty, Fickleuesn. O, she... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English drama - 1883 - 1162 pages
...where it listed, laying all things prone,— Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVII. ordon Byron * Voltaire and Gibbon. 31 In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - Italian literature - 1885 - 360 pages
...o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. 107. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, 995 And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, 1000 Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doom'd... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 288 pages
...Blew where it listed, laying all thingsprone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - 420 pages
...it listed, laying all things prone, — • Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. 107. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, 106, 1. the one, Voltaire. — fire - - feurig und launenhaft, 49, 6. - 2 f. höchst veränderlich... | |
 | Dalhousie University - 1888 - 212 pages
...But his own Breathed most in ridicule. (y) The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And living wisdom with each studious year, In meditation dwelt...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer : The lord of irony. (h) Relic of noble days, and noblest arts ! Despoiled yet perfect, with thy circle spreads A... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 770 pages
...the public. It reminds us of what Byron says of Gibbon, comparing him with Voltaire : The other,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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVI I. on Byron Byron wilh an edge severe, S*ippinu a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell,... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 868 pages
...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... | |
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