 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 - Sida 6121816Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 sidor
...where it listed, laying all things prone.— Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVI r. K 6 c + irony,— that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear. And doom'd him to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1869 - 380 sidor
...to shake a throne. i'vn. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with eaeh studious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning...shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn ereed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Whieh stung his foes to wrath,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 768 sidor
...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. evil. ; But none of them appear'd to share his woes, Save...and now had found Ал unknown barren beach for buri Sappin^ a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1870 - 262 sidor
...everything except Christianity is embellished oy Gibbon's pen. Lord Byron wrote of him that he — " . . . . Shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; " lines which show Byron's estimate of the attitude which Gibbon assumed toward the Christian faith.... | |
 | David Thomas - 1871 - 784 sidor
...: the historian is pictured in his Lausanne retreat, hiving wisdom with each studious year, shaping 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. " One of Byron's best- known figures in... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 sidor
...: the historian is pictured in his Lausanne retreat, hiving wisdom with each studious year, shaping 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." One of Byron's best known figures in fiction... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 sidor
...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 hiving wisdom with each studious year, lu meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 sidor
...shake a throne. The other, deep and slow, exhansting thought, And hiving wisdom with each stndious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,...shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn ereed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath,... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1870 - 244 sidor
...everything except Christianity is embellished by Gibbon's pen. Lord Byron wrote of him that 68 ,, » . » Shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; " lines which show Byron's estimate of the attitude which Gibbon assumed toward the Christian faitrL... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 234 sidor
...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvn 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 doomed him to... | |
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