...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...him to the zealot's ready Hell, Which answers to all doubts so eloquently well. cvm. Yet, peace be with their ashes, — for by them, If merited, the penalty...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throiif. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fe;ir And doom'd him to the zealot's ready Hell, Which answers to all doubts so eloquently well. CVIH....

...Bichardson, Rousseau und Goethe. Jena 1875, p. 266). tiber Gibbon aussert sich Byron aaO. Str. 107 so : The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each stndious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,...

...of intellectual pride, of the spirit which Byron ascribes to Gibbon when he pictures him asSapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony,— that master-spell, i!and It may be as a "terrible and fiery finger, shrivelling falsehoods from the souls of men." As...

...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.1 The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,1 And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, i. concentering thought And gathering wisdom . — [MS.] 1. [In his youth Voltaire was imprisoned for...

...to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.1 cvu. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,L And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, i. concentering thought And gathering wisdom . — [MS.) I. [In his youth Voltaire was imprisoned for...

...opportunity. He was a tireless student, an indefatigable investigator, a close observer, a clear thinker — Deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. Possessed of the richest stores of information on almost all public questions, he never'wasted them...

...allusions contained in, the following passages : — Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued. Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; — The...irony, that master-spell Which stung his foes to wrath. This makes the mad men who have made men mad By their contagion ! The part of Philip's son was thine,...

...of religion, appealed to Gibbon as a logical and inevitable consequence. Byron described him as — "Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony — that master-spell." The very solemnity of his sneer made it a dangerous weapon in the hands of active enemies of Christianity...

...o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.1 CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought,L And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation...sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, L concentering thought And gathering wisdom . — [MS.] 1. [In his youth Voltaire was imprisoned for...