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
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 560 pages
...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...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which strung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear: And doomed him... | |
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...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...with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an tdge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which... | |
| 1816 - 572 pages
...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...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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...ridicule; — which , as the wind, Blew where it listed , laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvir. The other,...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... | |
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...it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'ei throw a fool, and now to shake a throne. 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVIL The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...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, which... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...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...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony — that master-spell, Which stnng his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doomed him to... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...where it listed, laying all things prone,— Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVI I. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with ari edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony,—that master-spell,... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to «huke u throne. not been thy dupe, nor am thy prey — But was my...disappear. Abbot. Alas! how pale thou art — thy irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wratli , which grew from fear, And ilnnni'il... | |
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...exhausting thought. And hiving M i-doin u iili пи h »tiidiousyear, In iiu-ilitation dwelt, with Irarniiig wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe. Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; Tli<- lord of irony,— that master-spell, Which stung hie foe« to wrath , which grew from fear.... | |
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