 The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed...  The Port Folio - Page 1561817Full view - About this book
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 380 pages
...does. If he denounces, it is not with real indignation. He is either like Voltaire, who — " Breathed most in ridicule — which as the wind Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne ;" or else, like that " lord of irony," as Byron calls Gibbon, " sapping a solemn creed with solemn... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 354 pages
...is not with real indignation. He is either like Voltaire, who— " Breathed most in ridicule—which as the wind Blew where it listed, laying all things...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne ;" or else, like that " lord of irony," as Byron calls Gibbon, " sapping a solemn creed with solemn... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 308 pages
...combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : but his own2 Breathed most in ridicule,— which, as the wind, Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvii The other3, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving* wisdom with each studious year, In... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: But his own Breathed most in ridicule,—which, CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, * Voltaire... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 360 pages
...combined ; He multiplied himself among mankind, 990 The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where...Now to 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - 420 pages
...among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: But bis own . Breathed most in ridicule, — which, äs the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things...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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 288 pages
...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 thingsprone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. In meditation dwelt, with learning... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed 8 )0 CVI I. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1923 - 574 pages
...combined ; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: but his own Breathed most in ridicule — which, as the wind, Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne." You could hardly sum up Voltaire better than in those last two lines. In May, 1818, an entirely new... | |
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